Who doesn’t love a good chair?
There’s definitely something to be said about a quality piece of furniture; a chair that lovingly hugs your bottom when you sit in it. It’s almost poetry. On the practical side, most of our jobs require that we sit for 7-8 hours of the day and much of our leisure activities are done while sitting. It would seem that having a comfortable office chair is almost a necessity… right?
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Yesterday, my sister forwarded me a Yahoo! article that talks about what sitting does to the human body. According to this article, sitting for extended periods of time screws up your posture, makes you fatter, and causes lower back pain! So maybe your chair is more like this:
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I’m not the guy to tell you that sitting is going to kill you, or that we should never sit. I do echo the sentiment of the article that physical fitness is about cultivating an active lifestyle, not just exercising regularly. True to form, since reading this article I’ve created my own standup setup:
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So, in the immortal words of wise man, Ludacris, “Stand Up!”
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