How to Work at a Computer without Destroying your Body

Standup desks are all the rage right now, and for good reason: we’re finally realizing that sitting all day is one of the worst things you can do for your health.

If you’ve somehow missed the trend, here’s some background:

• Stand-up desks gaining favor in the workplace (NYTimes)
• Too much sitting linked to early death. (Harvard Medical School)
• Is Sitting Killing me? (Time)
• In Silicon Valley, Sitting is the New Smoking (Wired)
• Humor: I Switched to a Standing Desk, So Now You Should, Too (NewYorker)

Human performance guru Kelly Starrett has gone so far as to write a book on the topic. He’s mentioned the single biggest thing we could do for public health is to eliminate sitting from schools by replacing school desks with stand-up tables.

And even during the short conversation we had in January at San Francisco CrossFit he threw in the suggestion: “dude, you have to stop sitting.” (more: How I broke my body and then fixed it.)Continue reading >>