Stand Up -- Interesting read for people with desk jobs

imthelobster

http://www.npr.org/2012/05/09/152336802/stand-up-walk-around-even-just-for-20-minutes

"Sitting for long periods of time — when you don't stand up, don't move at all — tends to cause changes physiologically within your muscles," says Reynolds. "You stop breaking up fat in your bloodstream, you start getting accumulations of fat ... in your liver, your heart and your brain. You get sleepy. You gain weight. You basically are much less healthy than if you're moving."

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I don't know how accurate the science is behind this, but it's an interesting read nonetheless, and I think I'm probably going to try and do this. If nothing else, it will let me take a short break from staring at my computer screen for as many hours a day I do.

myfitnessnmhoy

Talk to your workplace about this - mine offers the option of "sit/stand" workstations which are basically workstations set so the computer is at a comfortable height for standing, a drafting-style tall computer chair, and a fatigue mat. I've been using one for about 4 1/2 years now, not standing nearly often enough but trying to stand for at least an hour a day. I can just slide off the seat and stand on the floor while working, then when I get tired I hop back up on the seat.

I've started noticing a VERY slow trend where the desks around me are starting to request it.

You do lose a little privacy, since your head is now above cube-wall height, but I find a sit-down workstation claustrophobic now.