https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/53/6/dyae136/7822310
It’s recent, from 16 October. You should also know that studies are effectively primary sources that have gone through fresh pairs of eyes and reviews are the trustworthy ones, though that also doesn’t necessarily means this one must be untrustowrthy; it just means that time hasn’t told whether it holds.
Of course they don’t do squat, they do stand.
/s
Would have been a lot easier to type this comment while squatting if I had a standing desk capable of squating instead of using my lap for my notebook
I have a standing desk.
Some days I’m just too freaking tired. If I sit another minute in this chair - an Aeron, which sucks to sleep in - I will absolutely fall unconscious, and I need to function.
It’s an old army trick that you stand up. So I raise the desk, stand, move about, mark a little time, sway a bit, get a Cuban with the hips, etc – humans were made for motion.
And I’m no longer sleepy. Typically this is during a meeting, and we are cameras-optional so it’s all good. Oh. If you have a meeting that is longer than 30 minutes, kinda fuck you just a bit.
I took a standing desk and placed it over a treadmill. Lost 40 lbs in the first year and have stayed at my target weight for 3 years, mainly because of the walking exercise. There’s a sling chair that I hang from the ceiling for when I prefer to sit. But a slow walk is how I spend most of the workday.
I will never go back to an office desk. No more back pain or stiff neck. No danger of blood clots or sore feet from just standing. The health benefits have been amazing.
How easy is it to type when you’re walking?
This study says that standing for more than two hours increases risk of certain things like blood clots. It also says sitting for a whole shift is bad, and you should be moving every 30 minutes. This does not mean standing desks are useless; I’m not standing for my circulatory system, I’m standing for my back. I also don’t stand for an entire shift, that’s what’s great about the memory settings. I’ll switch back and forth depending on what I feel like doing. Sometimes I’ll have it on “sit” all day, other times I’m switching back and forth quite a bit. I don’t think they’re useless, nor do I think it’s some health miracle, but it does give me more flexibility and I don’t think I’d go without after having used one.
Time spent standing was not associated with CVD risk but was associated with higher orthostatic circulatory disease risk. Time spent sitting above 10 h/day was associated with both higher orthostatic circulatory disease and major CVD risk. The deleterious associations of overall stationary time were primarily driven by sitting. Collectively, our findings indicate increasing standing time as a prescription may not lower major CVD risk and may lead to higher orthostatic circulatory disease risk.
100%. Be dynamic, not static. A standing desk can help being dynamic!
Pretty much exactly what you said. My standing desk changed my life, study or no study
Also, if I’m tired and can’t think in front of the computer, standing up helps about with getting my circulatory system going and getting myself awake and alert again.
Best posture is your next posture
Time to get a treadmill desk
Ysk it all depends on who’s funding the study.
YSK that journals screen for conflict of interest, and none were found or declared here.
I don’t personally like standing desks, but I do know that some people do prefer them. I think that from an employer standpoint, providing the option is probably a good idea anyway. It’s not terribly expensive to provide as an option, and if you’re going to be working at a desk all day, it’s gonna impact your experience at work a fair bit; probably a lot more than whatever the cost of having a different desk option is. If it makes an employee happier to be standing…shrugs
Most of the time I just prefer to work standing.
Yeah, better vantage point.
New from Hasbro, the stand on desk!
(some accessories not included)
Your description doesn’t match your title or the study at all. This is a terrible YSK. At best it’s a YSK these studies are ongoing.
Could you clarify what you mean by my description not matching the study nor title?
For major CVD, when stationary time exceeded 12 h/day, risk was higher by an average of 0.13 (0.10, 0.16) per hour. Sitting time was associated with a 0.15 (0.11, 0.19) higher risk per extra hour. Time spent standing was not associated with major CVD risk.
Collectively, our findings indicate increasing standing time as a prescription may not lower major CVD risk and may lead to higher orthostatic circulatory disease risk.
Saying “they don’t do squat” is just a plain lie, and there’s no reason people “should know they dont do squat”.
If your concern was that I didn’t qualify the headline’s area of interest, I just did that. The headline was from the TechCrunch article this link post goes to.
It doesn’t matter if youre copying another (wrong) headline from a sensationalized article. Your post will be removed anyway as it violates the rules of the sub. There’s no reason everyone should know this, nor did you give a reason.
There are plenty other reason besides CVD to use a standing desk.
This is the nature of things in my experience. Next they’ll declare it actually more helpful than they previously thought. Back and forth, like a pendulum.
