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If you sit in a chair for 14 hours a day like the inventor of this chair does you will develop life threatening blood clots in your legs. It doesn't matter how
by yodon 8y ago
If you sit in a chair for 14 hours a day like the inventor of this chair does you will develop life threatening blood clots in your legs. It doesn't matter how many ultra marathons you run the other ten hours a day. Your heart can't actually pump the blood out of your legs so your body is designed to have muscle activity in the legs do the work. If you sit for 8 hours you are at serious risk for blood clots (this is why doctors tell you to get up and walk around on a coast-to-coast or trans Atlantic or trans Pacific flight).
And yes, I'm a guy in otherwise great shape who was rushed to the ER with a potentially life threatening blood clot caused by sitting at my laptop in coffee shops for 8 hours a day coding. All that hyper attention and focus capability may be great for coding or gaming but it's a serious risk factor in other ways. The best solution is drink lots of water (so you feel the need to get up) or get a Fitbit and pay attention when it tells you you haven't walked around recently.
- toper-centage 8y agoSo what you're saying is the chair needs a leg device the periodically squeezes your legs a little to pump out those clots. Gotcha.
- mcny 8y agoWould some sort of g-suit help? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-suit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-suit
- yodon 8y agoI've often wondered the same but not found any studies answering the question.
- xkcd-sucks 8y agoNah dude, amputate and prosthetic. There's no excuse for people to doing marathons on million year old tech when you can be running on carbon fiber springs
- Waterluvian 8y agoI suddenly feel much better about my ADHD making it impossible for me to sit still for longer than maybe 90 minutes at work.
- fyfy18 8y agoHow much, and how often, do you need to walk around to reduce the risk of this? Is going to the bathroom every hour or two enough?
- yodon 8y agoMy understanding is that's fine. Fitbit encourages you to walk 250 steps every hour (which is a default goal so likely somewhat more than most people do every hour or it wouldn't be a good default goal)
- jaclaz 8y agoMaybe one could make a cross-breed with something like this armchair-cyclette: https://www.technogym.com/it/recline-excite-forma.html https://www.technogym.com/it/recline-excite-forma.html one could additionally power the monitor from batteries recharged by a generator connected to the pedals.
- quickthrower2 8y agoMy inability to focus without a lunchtime walk might be good for me. I’m probably the most frequent coffee breaker too. Usually my body feels too awkward and I have to move.
- BubRoss 8y agoOr you could have two desks, one standing.