| Going to try a standing desk |
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Wednesday, July 13th, 2016 21:19:19 GMT |
| Health |
Yesterday, in my family's basement, I was able to find an old rolling table which is tall enough to use as a standing desk for my laptops.
Why did I want a standing desk? Because I keep running into articles which suggest that standing might be healthier than continually sitting.
And it will make it easier to do a wider variety of random exercises (or bellydancing :-D ) while continuing to work on my computer at the same time.
So, I'm going to be careful to avoid swollen ankles. Though I think I might have avoided that without even trying, because I'm so fidgety that I'll probably seldom stand still for long at my standing desk.
So, judging by that article, it seems that alternating between standing and sitting is probably better than constantly standing or constantly sitting. And also that fidgeting is good.
I'm definitely not interested in overdoing standing, exercise, sitting, or anything else. So, hopefully it will overall be good for me to get more variation and movement into my habitual routines. End of addition.)
And it turns out that despite being 35, I still like spinning around in an office chair about as much as I did when I was 5. :-)
So, who knows how much standing and other exercise I'm really going to do now. :-)
But since I have a laptop, this chair won't necessarily interfere with my computing too much. It will at least be amusing to see how well I can program while dizzy.
However, here's a partly negative article about standing desks:
(Addition, July 13, 2016, 6:28 PM EDT. Another partly negative article:
I wonder if lying or sitting in bed is healthier than sitting in a chair all day? My computers are usually next to my bed, and I shift positions a lot more than is possible in the average chair.
Another thing I found in the basement was a nice swiveling office chair I didn't even know we had.
My next task is to clear enough junk out of my room to make adequate room for these delights. Cleaning isn't my favorite thing to do, but at least it has more immediately perceptible good results than the average boring exercise.