Working standing up follow up
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I split my desk, so if I'm checking email or talking to gays on skype, I'm standing. If I'm developing or building links, I'm usually sitting. When I get a free weekend to swap it all out, I'm going to standing full time. Even now, constantly getting up to deal with communication shit feels much better than just planting ass in chair for 12+ hours day.
Any suggestions on appropriate desks? Every "ergonomic" / adjustable height desk I've seen costs an absolute shitload.
Basically I'd like to be able to stand for most of the day and sit for certain tasks, much like Grindstone commented. I could prop everything up on my current desk but then I'd just have to take it all down to sit and fuuuuuck that.
Update: found this, for around $1000 delivered: http://www.geekdesk.com/default.asp?contentID=633
What the fuck man just sit down in a comfortable chair... Sitting is not fucking bad, this is just idiotic. That's a stupid link-bait image in the OP.
Just take a walk to the fridge and get a drink of water every 30 minutes.
Yeah sitting all day isn't ideal because you're eating and not burning calories but standing isn't going to make a difference. Go for a run every morning and eat healthy. We are in a position where we can be comfortable ALL day and you're not satisfied? Jesus christ.
what is the solution to this all? you have told about diseases that come due to sitting.we thought you also provide solution?
Yeah, everyone switching to standing is going to be bitching about their knees soon and asking which are the best standing mats and knee pads.
Nobody is winning here. Just get up and move around every once in a while. At the end of every Pomodoro, do some pushups, jump-n-jacks, situps, and penis-pulls.
Nobody is winning here. Just get up and move around every once in a while. At the end of every Pomodoro, do some pushups, jump-n-jacks, situps, and penis-pulls.
I've actually been using a standing desk for the past 6 months or so. The reason why I switched is because I was in grad school studying for exams 10-16 hours a day and my back got so bad I literally could no longer sit. I was in severe pain but could still stand so I stacked my desk up on some tupperware boxes I had and used that as a ghetto standing desk to get through exams.
After that I threw out my chair. Since I didn't have any money I decided to build a stand for my desk out of plywood and 2x4s and made a more permanent solution. I spent maybe $50 on it and it took a few hours to throw together with basic tools.
Having used a standing desk for months now I'm not sure I really get a better focus or anything. It's probably better than sitting, especially on my old POS chair, but is it some sort of mind blowing lifestyle change? Hasn't been the case for me.
Ideally I would get one of those motorized desks so you can convert it from standing to sitting and get a fancy aeron chair. Sometimes it's nice to sit down and if I get tired of standing I will sometimes take my laptop over to the couch and sit there for a bit.
Moral of the story? I think it is best to do both depending on the task and how you are feeling. I spend probably 70% of my time standing at my desk but sometimes I feel like having a seat. Nothing wrong with that imo.
After that I threw out my chair. Since I didn't have any money I decided to build a stand for my desk out of plywood and 2x4s and made a more permanent solution. I spent maybe $50 on it and it took a few hours to throw together with basic tools.
Having used a standing desk for months now I'm not sure I really get a better focus or anything. It's probably better than sitting, especially on my old POS chair, but is it some sort of mind blowing lifestyle change? Hasn't been the case for me.
Ideally I would get one of those motorized desks so you can convert it from standing to sitting and get a fancy aeron chair. Sometimes it's nice to sit down and if I get tired of standing I will sometimes take my laptop over to the couch and sit there for a bit.
Moral of the story? I think it is best to do both depending on the task and how you are feeling. I spend probably 70% of my time standing at my desk but sometimes I feel like having a seat. Nothing wrong with that imo.
I wonder if anyone is making those chairs that one of the airlines were going to use for standing room only flights. I wouldn't mind taking a look at some of them. It was like a leaning
As long as I have something to lean on like that, I'd be fine. It's not so much the standing, but not having anything solid to lean against and needing to be in a single position for long periods of time.
Sitting all day used to murder my back, it probably still does, but once I started lifting (back exercises, the usual suspects) and walking for about an hour or so a day that kind of went away. I used to not be able to sleep on my stomach at all and had to switch to my back.
As long as I have something to lean on like that, I'd be fine. It's not so much the standing, but not having anything solid to lean against and needing to be in a single position for long periods of time.
Sitting all day used to murder my back, it probably still does, but once I started lifting (back exercises, the usual suspects) and walking for about an hour or so a day that kind of went away. I used to not be able to sleep on my stomach at all and had to switch to my back.
^^ Agree with this IMO, sometimes sitting is a better choice. I'd still spend most of the time standing/walking. I've got a tredmill desk but also stand at the kitchen counter most of the time doing work, so I'm either standing or walking while doing work. Some days I clock 20,000+ steps while getting work done.
Don't get me wrong, I don't literally stand up 10-15 hours a day. When I work I'm standing up.
My life is not as important as some of yours so I don't have 10 hours of stuff to do....
If you have laser focused attention while lying in a bed more power to you.
I know there has to be some of you who do sit in front of a computer all day and manage to eat healthy and exercise and that's great and I do genuinely admire you.
If you are or were like me and aren't making that much money and feel stagnant in your physical health and even rockier in your mental health and want to just give something a shot that won't cost you anything. I no longer have 10,000 dollars worth of boxes 30" monitors I just have a god damn laptop on a dresser for the time being. Next to it is a bed for sleeping and next to that is a closet with a pull-up bar.
I'll be the example: If you are like me and have trouble concentrating and have underlying energy problems from sitting in front of your computer all day. Find yourself jumping back and forth between non-important and important things ex. games email porn random bookmarks reddit articles youtube vs things that are benefiting you. I immediately found that I didn't have the physical stamina to stand up for 15 hours(how long I used to spend online) a day and bullshit. So immediately I said fuck this if I'm going to stand I'm going to have to get shit done so I can sit down.
As I stood up more I found myself able to stand longer and longer each day then I finally put up the pull-up bar I had in the closet for about a year and actually started using it.
The standing up alone was not giving me a six pack or making my dick large anymore than walking into a gym makes someone get stronger. It facilitated a number of positive changes in my life personally. It opened my eyes to the common sense tools around me. When I lay in the bed I sleep, when I stand up I work, when I sit over here I'll relax and read a book. Yes poor Jameel he can't make perfect decisions like everyone else on the fly and making $300,000 a day and program 6 languages. This fucking loser can't even sit down all day and still make healthy decisions about food and exercise.
Maybe the standing up solution is not for everyone and that's fine. I was suicidal a few months ago and literally getting off my ass allowed me to start generating actual income and start exercising. I'm a simpleton and if I sit in front of a computer it's like opening a box of toys I get distracted so like a child I've mentally roped areas off. It works for me and got me to a good place. Hell I even posted a thread recently about how to deal with all the books and information I thought I had to read and someone just said "focus on the shit that will improve your life" ding ding ding.
I just did the same thing for my workflow and said when I phsyically and literally over here I'll fucking focus on this. Stand up, discard the garbage and focus on this.
Benefits for me
* Overall mental clarity, when I go here I do this, when I'm here I do that
* Energy and mood improvement, since I'm actually getting important things done now I feel a lot better
* Better appetite and diet, since I'm more active and moving around and going inside and outside more frequently I naturally want to eat better to fuel that
* Exercise, I started off doing simple bodyweight and pull up exercises like Hindu Squats & Pushup/Pullups and added in some running and general stretching throughout the day.
* More time for other quality activities, in the last few years I've read very few phsyical copies of books because I was stuck to the computer. I find it hard to read an ebook with the constant ding of IM's, Steam messages, email, songs to start listening to. What a big difference actually going away from the damn thing makes.
* Less time online / on the computer, I take quality time to read, actually enjoy the food I'm eating, exercise, think and reflect, write with an actual pen on paper. I personally don't think managing everything digitally is right for me, I tried using bookmarks and evernote but I rarely found myself referencing them.
I guess the way we each view the world everything must be relative to something else. You may try standing up and relative to how your life already is see nothing at all and then yes it's pointless. If you compare my life to some of yours it's pretty damn pathetic. But if I compare my own life a few months ago to now I'm more than happy with the changes standing up to work has brought me.
tl;dr if you dont wanna stand up, then dont stand up, it may bring nothing at all to your life or it might not, i dont know im just one dude
I am in a rotation of sorts and I do not stand up continous for multiple - 10+ hours a day. I feel like I shouldn't have posted this thread like I'm trying to defend some sort of holistic medicine or homemade cure for cancer.
Surprised Turbo hasn't chimed in here. Fuck a standing desk you guys need a treadmill desk. TrekDesk Chair – Burn Calories Sitting At Your Mobile Workstation - The UberReview
You could also make your own treadmill desk easy peesy.
You could also make your own treadmill desk easy peesy.
MY back/posture has been killing me for YEARS.
I am looking into this myself right now. For those of you working standing up, how long do you stand up? I am on the computer doing numerous things a lot and sometimes I am working 18 hour day. I know that no one could be standing that long, so would you say its a mix of 50/50?
I am looking into this myself right now. For those of you working standing up, how long do you stand up? I am on the computer doing numerous things a lot and sometimes I am working 18 hour day. I know that no one could be standing that long, so would you say its a mix of 50/50?
I'm not going to argue with people who randomly want a standing desk but I really don't understand why anyone with back problems think that standing hours at time will help your back. As it is I can stand MAYBE 10 minutes in one spot and then I need to start doing the stretch squat (all back pain sufferers know this one)
My back pain is mostly gone now (compared to 3 years ago) and I'll tell you one of the best things I did for it was start out with a chair that reclined to 135% like in that picture above.
When I first saw that pic it was mind= blown.