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I hope this study don't revive the trend of standing desks again. Look I know being sedentary will rob me a few years of life, but going full opposite and being
by feelandcoffee 9y ago
I hope this study don't revive the trend of standing desks again. Look I know being sedentary will rob me a few years of life, but going full opposite and being stand 9 to 5 it's Dante inferno at work.
Probably the best balance will be having a routine with exercise present, and small breaks to stand and walk a little bit at X minutes sitting.
- maxxxxx 9y agoAt home I have a desk I can take up and down. Some days I sit, some days I stand. I think that's the best
- squeaky-clean 9y agoThey're starting to phase in desks at my current job where you can save a few preset heights, and push a button to shift to one. It's pretty cool, though 90% of people with them only sit.
- abawany 9y agoI place this (http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/90184047/ http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/90184047/) on my desk when I want a standing desk and remove it when I am ready to sit down :) . I like Ikea.
- anken 9y agoI place this https://m.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/art/80267566/ https://m.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/art/80267566/ on my desk, you can put more things than your computer and lean on it, it holds well.
- abawany 9y agoThat's a good idea - the Marius table that I use is a bit precarious with its round top.
- sdiupIGPWEfh 9y agoIt's almost as if it's lack of constant (even low-grade) activity that's the problem, rather than whether you're sitting or standing. Perhaps not moving all day is the cause.
- pikchurn 9y agoTreadmill desk?
- sdiupIGPWEfh 9y agoPotentially better than nothing! However, as a single repetitive motion, it might carry its own long-term risks. Maybe one of those giant human mouse-wheel things with variable terrain? Tripping would suck, though.
- xkcd-sucks 9y agoMinority Report style interfaces that require big limb+head movements?
- fb03 9y agoHeh, nice try, but you don't even need a big interface to see how that pans out. You realize how sedentary you are when you have to use a huge multitouch monitor for... half hour. Your arms will be heavy from just pointing and clicking at the screen in front of you. This situation is very sad and I'm also looking for alternatives. Right now what I'm doing is just taking a 5 min break every hour at work and walk to some random part of the complex pretending I'm delivering something or running some errand, just to get me a lil walk and stand time. While they allow me to do that just fine, I know I am also hurting my productivity quite badly because you're never in that kind of flow state where hours pass like minutes. I want: - Good productivity. Good time alloted to 'flow' - Not fuck my health in the long term too badly. Let's share ideas!
- Nimitz14 9y agoI think it's fine to have an occasional binge of any kind. So you once every couple weeks spend a day or two just sitting intensley focussed on something. What matters is your habits for most of the time, not literally all of it (in other words as long as ~80%+ of your days you do take regular breaks it's fine).
- kruhft 9y agoSomething a bit more like this every morning at work? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCfW6HFP5cI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCfW6HFP5cI
- jdc0589 9y agorevive the trend? its still in full force so far as I can tell. One of our offices just moved to a new building and got (small) motorized standing desks for everyone. I thought I would hate it, but honestly having the option is nice. Plus, its a lot easier to look at something with a coworker standing for some reason. Sadly I'm almost never in that office, I kind of wish I had it all the time.
- manmal 9y ago> Plus, its a lot easier to look at something with a coworker standing for some reason. So true. I think this is because legs are not in the other person‘s way vs sitting.
- kaybe 9y agoI like the option of just changing the chair height and/or the desk height every few hours and stay seated. That alone mixes up my posture quite a bit.
- solipsism 9y agoWhat do you mean by "Dante inferno"? Are you saying it's torture? I stand my entire work day and I'm not going back. But no one is forcing anyone to stand all the time. Cardiovascular exercise is torture for me. But that has no bearing on the utility of it.
- ravenstine 9y agoWhat's wrong with a trend in standing desks? Nobody is forcing you to use one.
- newfoundglory 9y agoThere probably are some employers that mandate sending desks.
- foepys 9y agoIf there are, do they supply high quality shoes? Standing for so long in bad shoes might result in pain, too. I'm a bit of a pessimist in that regard so I could see an employer doing this to save money. A good office chair ranges from $600 to $2000 but you can also can go as high as you want.
- newfoundglory 9y agoit probably depends how many other job options their employees have.
- sixothree 9y agoI got a VersaDesk because of some pain issues I was having (which have since been resolved). I would absolutely not want to be standing for 10 hours a day. But it is nice to be able to stand up for my usual 3-5 hours per day.
- Kenji 9y agoI had to stand for 9 hours every day at one job. It was a horrible experience. A lot of foot pain and sore foot arches.
- oh_sigh 9y agoThey have adjustable sit-stand desks these days.
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- haukilup 9y agoWhat's bad about the trend - don't offices typically give you a choice of which you'd prefer? Previous workplaces I've been at had the option of an Ikea adjustable height desk for people who would occasionally switch between the two.
- eropple 9y agoI've had one of those and it was okay, but I much prefer my home setup - a standing-height desk and a draft-height chair. Nothing needs to move to switch, and so I switch regularly throughout the day.
- cranjice 9y agoWhat a good idea! I have a powered sit/stand desk but tend to only stand during meetings, which luckily (well, unlucky in this context) aren't very often. Going to give a drafting chair a try.
- melling 9y agoMaybe we can figure out what we need to do, at a minimum, to alleviate the problem. 20 push-ups, 20 squats, etc every couple hours? “But even slightly elevated troponin levels, lower than those involved in heart attacks, are worrisome if they persist” If we can measure the right things, we can “treat it” ——- HN-TIME:For those tracking, this story was posted 3 times in two days. 12pm EST on a Friday got over 50 upvotes in a hour. Lunchtime EST.
- simplify 9y agoPersonally I love standing desks. I find myself naturally walk around more often, especially when I'm in deep thought. This rarely happens when I'm sitting, as it feels much harder to get up. But it's good to have a sitting option too so you don't have to stand all day.
- brightball 9y agoStanding desk plus an anti fatigue mat was mostly life changing for me. The amount of energy that I have at the end of the day is noticeably different but it does take some getting used to. Different strokes for different folks though. I really miss it when I don’t have it.
- JeremyNT 9y agoI think the real solution here is diversity. I don't know that 9-5 standing was ever seriously advocated as a preferable alternative to sitting; clearly there are issues with that too. I mix things up at work personally; about a third of the day standing, a third sitting in a chair, a third sitting on a yoga ball. At this point it seems like you should just hedge and try to about doing any single thing without moving for too long.