ARE YOU ACTIVE 'AND' SEDENTARY?

“There are evidence-based ways to sit and stand better but the conditions that make these positions better for you are limited in scope. Which is why in addition to making postural adjustments, which introduce new body loads and require different muscles to work, you also need to move more throughout the day–throughout being the key term. The newest research shows that you can be active (as in, faithfully completing your daily workout at the gym while logging “10 miles ran today” on your marathon training program) and still be sedentary (as in, commuting back and forth each day to your desk job and consuming extensive digital entertainment in your leisure hours).

Let’s work to solve the problem by not just getting up and out of our chairs, but by creating intermittent movement–both on the large and small scale–while still getting our business/work done. As you proceed through the next sections about workstations, sitting, standing, and doing clever exercises in the office, always keep the big picture goal in mind that’s these optimal setups are really way stations to flow through over the course of the workday.”

- Katy Bowman from Don't just sit there