The common phrase “Sitting is the New Smoking” is not entirely true. Sedentary lifestyle, or not moving, is the real reason sitting is so harmful to our health.
If we took our 8-hour workday we spend sedentary and decided to move every 3-5 minutes, we would negate the negative effects of our entire workday of sitting. And by move I simply mean stand up and sit back down. (total of 4 seconds of moving)
Turns out, spinal discs are the largest tissue in the body with no direct blood supply. It relies on increasing and decreasing pressure on it to ‘breath’ / get blood to diffuse through it. How do you consistently increase and decrease pressure on the spin? You got it, movement!
The trick is how do we move our lower spine every 3-5 minutes during our workday without disrupting our focus and workflow? That is the exact problem the startup I work for tackled. We have come up with a super cool, effective and non-ridiculous smart chair that works with your body to get the movement we all need.
If anyone is interested, we are looking to learn from a wider audience through customer discovery calls. If you are interested and have 15 minutes to chat, I’d love to connect: https://movably.typeform.com/to/y5NPOA2U
This is a cool idea, smart to develop this. However, it isn’t as effective as it could/should be.
My problem with all these apps that remind you to move, watch notifications, etc. is that they fail for two reasons…
First, they alert me too late. It turns out that after only 3-5 minutes of sitting, we begin to do damage to our spine. The reason is kind of cool. It turns out, spinal discs are the largest structure in the body with no direct blood supply. It relies on increasing and decreasing pressure on it to ‘breath’ / get blood to diffuse through it. How do you consistently increase and decrease pressure on the spine? You got it, movement! (check out this cool illustration: https://www.movably.com/chart-2)
Second, they disrupt my train of thought, focus and ultimately my workflow. I wanted something that could give me natural and need movement throughout my entire workday without interrupting it.
The trick is how do we get movement in our lower spine every 3-5 minutes during our workday without disrupting our focus and workflow? That is the exact problem the startup I work for tackled. We have come up with a super cool, effective and non-ridiculous smart chair that works with your body to get the movement we all need. Our chair was easily adopted and highly praised by initial users.
If anyone is interested, we are looking to learn from a wider audience through customer discovery calls. If you are interested and have 15 minutes to chat, I’d love to connect: https://movably.typeform.com/to/y5NPOA2U
Hi all. Before touching ergonomics, I want to tackle the issue of back pain due to sedentary desk work. Because honestly, between ergonomic and pain free… I’d take getting pain free first.
The common phrase “Sitting is the New Smoking” is not entirely true. Sedentary lifestyle, or not moving, is the real reason sitting is so harmful to our health. By increasing the amount we move during our day, we can avoid sedentary behavior and eliminate pain associated to sedentary time.
Check out this illustration that shows how breaking up sedentary time has a huge impact on our health.
https://www.movably.com/chart-3
Science time! It turns out, spinal discs are the largest structure in the body with no direct blood supply. It relies on increasing and decreasing pressure on it to ‘breath’ / get blood to diffuse through it. How do you consistently increase and decrease pressure on the spine? You got it, movement! (check out this cool illustration by the same people: https://www.movably.com/chart-2)
The trick is how do we get movement in our lower spine during our workday without disrupting our focus and workflow? That is the exact problem the startup I work for tackled. We have come up with a super cool, effective and non-ridiculous smart chair that works with your body to get the movement we all need.
Our smart chair was easily adopted and highly praised by initial users. Now we are looking to learn from a wider audience through customer discovery calls. If you are interested and have 15 minutes to chat, I’d love to connect:https://movably.typeform.com/to/y5NPOA2U
Please note, not a sales call, just looking to gather some more perspective.