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What's up everybody? Justin Hays here from SuperhumanPursuits.com. Today's topic, standing
desk and whether it really, truly has all the benefits it's been told to have.
Now, most people hear, from a lot of different resources online or magazines, that a standing
desk, taking yourself from a sitting position eight or nine hours a day to a standing position
will have dramatic postural impact. This is in part true. Standing statically, upright,
proper for eight hours a day or seven hours a day is going to be way better for you than
sitting.
Now, that being said, the most important part there is that standing with good posture.
Just standing in and of itself isn't going to solve your problems. You still have to
posturally stack up properly. You still have to stand in a good position for it to have
these benefits. Otherwise, if you're still doing the same thing standing that you were
doing when you were sitting, if you're slouching forwards, if you're crane-necking, then you're
really just reinforcing the same bad posture as you were when you were sitting down.
So a standing desk does have some benefits. In fact, it puts you in a more posturally
strong position. But it's not the problem, not the solution to fixing your posture.
In reality, on top of using a standing desk and getting out from a seated position, you
need to be doing exercises and corrective work that address any imbalances, asymmetries,
and postural problems that you've already created. So that coupled with a standing desk
will help. But really just standing, just going from a poor sitting position to a poor
standing is not going to make that much dramatic of a difference.
It's only a piece of the puzzle. The rest of it needs to be addressed in a gym.