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I've had a sitting/standing desk for a while, but I'm not very good about remembering to put it in standing mode. I do get up and walk around a fair amount, but I need to find some more ways to spend less time sitting.
What does the Stacker Fitness community do to spend less time sitting?
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Today, we’re going to talk about sitting and what it’s doing to your fitness level.
Fitness makes up just one part of your health. You also have your diet, supplements, and sleep. But you can’t get fit without motion—without exercise.
Fitness is an enhanced capacity to survive and adapt to your environment. It’s an extra tool to help you buffer stress more easily, increase flexibility and strength, and look and feel better.
On the flip side, a sedentary lifestyle is associated with stress and disease. Sitting for long periods can affect your entire body. If you’re sitting in front of a screen for long periods, your risk for certain health issues goes up even more.
How to support your health if you have to sit for long periods: • Take frequent breaks and stretch or exercise • Use lumbar support while driving and a lumbar support device to stretch the lower back before bed • Get a comfortable office chair and continue to move your body as you sit • Get into a hobby that involves motion • Go for long walks and get sunshine • Get something to block the blue light from your computer screen • Get more exercise—try yoga or pilates • Be more aware of EMFs and distance yourself from them • Try a treadmill desk or standing desk
Some experts say sitting and still life could be one of the leading cause of Parkinson desease.
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One of the best things is spending time away from your desk, I guess, and making that part of your lifestyle. There is a subset of qigong/chikung that focuses on standing meditation, which is a habit you can pick up for life. Probably helps to have an irl teacher though. I think doing that Foundation Training free vid for a week is the best thing to do right now and if you like it keep at it and/or look into yi chuan/zhan zhuang.
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I like the qigong idea. When I was in college I took a Tai Chi class that very briefly introduced qigong. I haven't done it in a long time, but I would really enjoy picking it back up.
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I try to get up every hour and make 10 push-ups while working on a computer.
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I've been really bad at sticking with things like that, but I'll give it another shot.
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you can try to set a timer to remind you.
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I hate living by timers, though. I'll try to be more mindful first and see if that gets me anywhere.
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yeah true, me neither. It's just a good instrument to get reminded. You can do the push-ups after you finished your current task or whatever your working on.
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I will frequently set a 30 minute timer, to get up and move around a little bit. But if I'm really involved in something, I don't necessarily always get up when the timer rings.
One potential idea is - have ANOTHER computer where you put your guilty pleasure websites. (Block them from your main computer via the hosts file). Or even block useful websites, that you need to use regularly (email?).
Have that other computer plugged in somewhere without a chair. So, whenever you need to use the blocked sites, you have to move to the other computer, and be standing.
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Love that idea.
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There is a proven technique to increase your productivity and also take care of your fitness with that technique. Hard to keep track and focus, but when this technique becomes your worklife habit you will love it.
The Pomodoro Technique is a time management method developed by Francesco Cirillo in the late 1980s. It uses a kitchen timer to break work into intervals, typically 25 minutes in length, separated by short breaks. Each interval is known as a pomodoro, from the Italian word for tomato, after the tomato-shaped kitchen timer Cirillo used as a university student.
And there will be 5 minutes short breaks between every 25 minutes cycles of work, and you can use that short breaks for stretching, pushups, drinking water, walking etc...
And after 4 pomodoro cycles there will be a long break which will be a long break usually 30 minutes, in that time you can either relax or workout extensively.
These
  • 25 minutes work cycles
  • 5 minutes short breaks after each cycle
  • 30 minutes long break after 4 pomodoro 25 minute cycles
is the standard procedure, you can customize these according to your needs and intentions.
It has many benefits and advantages to follow this technique, read the wiki article here or find better ones online and master this technique if you want a perfect balance of work, fitness and social life.
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Cool. I'll give it a shot, sans the timer. I hate timers.
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Dude, you should look into Foundation Training by Eric Goodman. It has healed my body from sitting to much.
The mechanics of his workouts are completely different than anything you've ever done. Its a little strange at first but if you do it, it has the ability to heal your body radically.
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Thanks for the recommendation. I've got the site pulled up and I'll take a look at it. At first glance it certainly looks like something I'd get into.
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I’m telling you, do his 12 minute free workout on YouTube 7 days in a row. You’ll start to feel relief in ways you never knew.
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Make standing mode the default on your desk. One way that works for me is to start the day and end the day with it standing and only put it into a seated position when I’m tired.
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Good idea. I started out the day pretty well, but I just realized that I've been sitting for about an hour, so I'm going to raise the desk back up.
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Love this. I went fully remote this year and have a standing desk and I stand all day. Might take a brief break to grab a snack but that’s it. I love it!
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I'm not quite so diligent, but I have been making better use of it since writing this post.
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You need to get off your chair and walk more
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Ergonomics might just help you more
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I agree. It's easy enough rig something up on your own that let's you stand and type.
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The nice thing about standing desks is that you can adjust. I like to sit as well and don't stand the whole time.
I would argue that this chair is worth more than a standing desk in regards to health. Although quite pricy as well.
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What do you like about that chair?
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Your body always a little bit in some movement and your overall posture is probalby better if you can't lean on something. If you use this chair for the first few days, you will definitely have sore muscles :)
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you get used to it quite quick and I don't have the feeling that I need to relax my back because of the sitting on this chair.
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there are those little stands you can add on top of your desk that can be lifted up to make it a "standing desk". that's what i'm currently using and it serves its purpose just fine, though you'll need to think through organizing your desk a bit more
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That's what I had in mind, but I've seen people do all kinds of crazy things.
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Get a dual motor standing desk frame from Amazon for $200ish and a table top from IKEA for ~$100. Screw in a power strip to the underside and a cable management tray and you have an amazing desk for under $400
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