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I don’t know. I think of the key issue being movement, or lack thereof. I’m not keen on the idea of standing desks because of the pressure it can put on legs, particularly the veins. I’ve had several friends who worked in jobs where they had to stand all the time and ended up really bad varicose veins at a young age. Standing is better than sitting, but movement, even just walking regularly, is best of all.

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Try sitting on this inflatable round pillow, it makes your lower spine work while you sit. I have it at work on my chair and it makes a big difference.

That’s a fact, and I have already experience myself how destroying it can be (!). It’s a paradox, you sit and do nothing, but you hurt your body at the same time! Isn’t it?But there is a remedy. Move, just get up and move, make physical activity your routine, your second skin, make it a part of your life. And no sitting virus will affect you.

I used to get horrible lower back pain from sitting all day (even sitting with proper posture), so I set up a sit/stand workstation, and now make use of both positions throughout the day, in about equal measure, during solo work. I step it up even further during my 1-5 hours of phone meetings each day, when I pace, stretch, and bounce/do squats on a Bosu in my office (I have a headset versus a handheld phone, so I have room to move about). The back pain is no longer an issue, and I don’t get as severe of a post-lunch energy slump as I used to. I started this about five years ago, and haven’t found any drawbacks/new pains in that time, but I’m sure it’s different for different bodies!

I’m a cook so I move all the time, but what I wish someone would’ve warned me about is crossing my legs while sitting. At 47 I have almost perfectly round, bruise-like spider veins in the exact spots where my legs have crossed all of my life. Not pretty.

I think that it’s sad that most jobs nowadays involve so much sitting. I think our body was not meant for this.
And going to the gym after work does actually not make up for the whole day of sitting.
I try to walk as much as possible.

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My husband has back issues so we got him a standing desk. Just from standing all day, he lost 10 pounds. The first few weeks were hard as his body had to adjust to using new muscles but now he loves it. The key is to get a mat for under your feet.

I was a teacher for years–and then, a year and a half ago, switched over to the admin side of the school. This means I am either at my desk or in meetings, sitting, sitting, sitting, way too much. I appreciate how being in the classroom I was almost always standing. I look for reasons to walk around campus, help with playground supervision, etc. but it is not enough. This reminds me that I have been meaning to look into a standing desk. At least I run, hike or bike nearly every day but there’s still way too much of the day in a chair.