It's time to get fit at work with Standing Desks

According to a popular research - sitting for long periods of time damages your health, even if you get plenty of exercise when you aren’t sitting each given day.

Sitting all day does some undesirable things to our bodies and that's no surprise. Excessive sitting is linked with an elevated risk for health conditions such as type 2 diabetes and heart disease. But just because you have a desk job doesn’t mean you’ll get heart disease. Sitting basically compromises the ability of the gluteal muscles to activate properly, leading to a condition called gluteal amnesia in due course.

There is some good news if you spend most of your time sitting. A standing desk is a good option as it will help you become more aware of your posture and engage your core muscles.

Many people today officially endorse the standing desk. Besides having the added benefit of burning 80–100 calories an hour, working standing up also helps not to overtax the brain. It also helps in improving blood flow, alleviating back pain, strengthening muscles, and actually boosting productivity. The health benefits are probably even greater.

Standing Desk and its Significance

Allowing you to stand up while you work at your desk, a standing desk is just an arrangement of furniture. Adjustable standing desks can come in different prices and varieties to suit every pocket.

According to many companies, standing desks  provide health benefits, including weight loss, reduced back pain, improved mental health, lower blood sugar, lower cholesterol, and greater life expectancy.

It's important to note that blood sugar returns to normal faster in people who have spent more time standing than sitting that day after eating food. According to many others, sit stand desks have helped them with shoulder and back pain significantly.

Our bodies were made to move! Like most animals we evolved to be mobile, having to be on-the-go in order to survive. The modern conveniences of today have taken away much of our necessity to stay active. When we’re inactive our muscles, bones, heart, circulation, and even our mental health can all suffer. Physically, being in a seated position for too long, day after day can lead to tight or weak muscles, poor posture, and issues like chronic lower back and neck pain.

Spending only 30-60 minutes out of our entire day being active does not offset an otherwise sedentary lifestyle. We need to incorporate more movement into the rest of our daily lives.

How Standing Desk can help give us more movement in everyday life

A Standing Desk gives you more energy

Feeling that afternoon slump? Getting out of your chair and onto your feet is a great way to boost your energy levels without needing an extra cup of coffee. Studies have shown that workers using an ergonomic desk instead of doing their work seated report improved energy levels throughout the day, as well as better mood and lowered stress levels.  An increase in physical activity can also help reduce mild depression and anxiety, as well as reduce stress.

An Electric Height  Adjustable Desk can reduce lower back and neck pain and improves your posture

Sitting all day can wreak havoc on our joints and muscles. When we’re seated (especially with poor positioning), our upper back and shoulders tend to curve in toward the front of our bodies, and our upper spine becomes rounded. This position puts significant strain on our lower backs, making those muscles responsible for holding our body weight, rather than our abdominal muscles which are used when we sit with good posture. It can be easy to stand with poor posture as well, but sit stand workstations allow you to personalize the height of your desk so that it is perfect for you! Say goodbye to lower back pain from sitting all day.

A Standing Desk burns more calories

It’s true! A study conducted on office workers looking at the benefits of standing vs. seated work showed that the standing workers burned an average of 174 calories more in an afternoon of standing compared to those who were seated. It might not seem like a whole lot, but if over the course of a day you could burn an extra 350 calories, at 5 days per week is an additional 1700 calories per week. Just by standing instead of sitting!

A Sit Stand Mobile Workstation can reduce chances of heart disease and diabetes

Studies show that people who spend the most time sitting have a higher risk of chronic disease (heart disease, type 2 diabetes), and early death when compared to people who spend the least time sitting. Since spending more time on our feet vs. sitting leads to an increase in energy expenditure, this is one way we can improve markers of health such as blood sugar levels or waist circumference.

When it comes to living a healthier lifestyle, small changes really do add up! We don’t need to quit our jobs or start running laps around the office every hour in the name of better health. Simply switching to a standing workstation can make a huge impact on our health, both mentally and physically.