I think I'm going to [attempt to] build a standing desk

[russell]

There's a man who's never heard of NEAT and that chairs will be the death of him...

Is there any verifiable conclusive evidence that sitting down for long periods is fatal or bad for your health? (A daily mail story doesn't fullfill this).

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Is there any verifiable conclusive evidence that sitting down for long periods is fatal or bad for your health? (A daily mail story doesn't fullfill this).

Yes. Well no not the fatal part

Apart from risks associated purely with sitting, it is trivial to show that standing increases your metabolism and heart rate (a few bpm) which clearly burns calories. Sitting for 12+ hours and then doing 30min exercise is not a great solution.

I trust you can search for your own sources if you're genuinely interested - start a thread in General it would be interesting to see if any client offices in the UK have started doing trendy standing worstations yet

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Also silly as it looks the bike thing's kind of interesting. You could pedal at a very leisurely rate and over a few hours you would be getting a lot of exercise. I won't be going that route but people have been having little mini-steppers and so on under their desks for years (decades?)

[Contreras]

Is there any verifiable conclusive evidence that sitting down for long periods is fatal or bad for your health? (A daily mail story doesn't fullfill this).

This from yesterday.... BBC News - How much better is standing up than sitting?

[russell]

This from yesterday.... BBC News - How much better is standing up than sitting?

So it says you will live 2 years longer, and burn 50 calories a day more and blood sugar is less.

This can easily be overcome by eating a healthier diet, low gi/carb and pot noodling.

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So it says you will live 2 years longer, and burn 50 calories a day more and blood sugar is less.

This can easily be overcome by eating a healthier diet, low gi/carb and pot noodling.

50 calories per hour, not per day. I count that as quite significant - if you were to stand all your working day rather than sit, this is equivalent to the calories you might burn at the gym.

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Just a quick update, I am currently trialling the idea of a standing desk in a more low-tech way before committing money and, more importantly, time to the project. It's embarrassingly crude but I found that 3 of those cardboard fruit boxes supermarkets have are a good height. More importantly, they are designed to stack stably and are remarkably strong - they lock together and there is no wobble as I type or anything like that.

I think I'll try this for the week and then decide if I want to make something better - other than aesthetics the main disadvantage is that this arrangement is not adjustable but realistically it's only 1-2min to go from sitting <--> standing configuration and as I WFH, nobody else is going to see it.

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I know I'm bumping a very old thread. But Ikea now do one for £500

BEKANT Desk sit/stand - birch veneer/black - IKEA and its electric...

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I know I'm bumping a very old thread. But Ikea now do one for £500

BEKANT Desk sit/stand - birch veneer/black - IKEA and its electric...

Looks a good price, I ended up buying one of these.

Standing Desk : The Big Jack Desk. The Height Adjustable Desk, Made In Britain. | iwantastandingdesk.com

More expensive than the ikea table. The quality is pretty spot on and I have 3x 24 inch monitors on it, two laptops and a soundbar. Still goes up and down

[JRCT]

Also silly as it looks the bike thing's kind of interesting. You could pedal at a very leisurely rate and over a few hours you would be getting a lot of exercise. I won't be going that route but people have been having little mini-steppers and so on under their desks for years (decades?)

If we all got one, we could connect them to the grid and we wouldn't need wind turbines.