I have always been a strange person. I'm not a crazy person (though in recent days I have begun to wonder that about myself too) but there are quirks about every person that makes them a little strange. One of my new passions, my new weird obsessions is the idea that we are slowly killing ourselves sitting. I wear a pedometer, those who know me know that I wear it, I talk about it all the time, but I still sit for 8 hours a day.. on average. I need to get myself a standing desk, like the one below, or make it I guess. I need one where I can move around behind it and still be able to get my work done. Standing still hurts. I have found (in my recent adventure of counting traffic) that you don't have to stand still when standing, and that is the beauty of it. I have been walking around while standing on a corner, and dancing around to my own music, and my feet haven't hurt the whole time. I will go about 3 hours of standing and for some reason, I still have no problems. There is something behind this infographic (click the red image for the full thing) maybe we need to stand more!
I know my back usually hurts if I just stand still for a long time, which is what Seth Brau says in his article about the desk below. He says it is better if he dances around or moves around some, and honestly I feel like I am more productive when I'm not sunk down into a chair, comfortable, relaxed, and slowly killing myself apparently. Our bodies are not designed to sit for hours on end, we are designed to seek out what we need to do, we are like a well oiled machine, if we don't move the gears they will stiffen up, no matter how much oil is on them. So I aim to figure out how to make my desk at work a standing desk, I know it will make me not only more active, and maybe more distracted because I will be able to just walk wherever I want to go, but also that it just might make me a little happier to be in the office (and eventually we can hope MORE productive).
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