When I first started using a standing desk, fatigue and pain prevented me from standing as much as I had hoped. I wondered if there was something I was doing wrong, or how I could improve my standing. Then I found just the thing: Foundation Training exercises. With just a…
Read More Pain and Fatigue While Standing? Try These 3 Exercises!
We’re big fans of productivity. It can mean more free time, getting more done, or both. And we like both! Since we like productivity so much, we spend a fair amount of time thinking about it, and have come up with some interesting theories. The theory I’m going to share…
Read More Consumption vs Production – Why Video Games Beat Books for Productivity
[QS Admin]: This post is from our newest author, John. Read his intro piece here. I’ve stated before my belief that quality movement and quality health both come easiest to those who develop a strong “feeling” sense. Since our bodies, minds, and emotions are constantly responding to the foods we…
[QS Admin]: We’re delighted to introduce a fantastic new author here at QS. John is a recovered couch potato turned recovering fitness addict who spent most of his childhood and teenage years sidelined by his chronically painful low back and feet. Today, he pursues practical studies in the manual, movement, and…
The future will be crowdfunded. And if we have anything to say about it, that future will happen at standing desks. So it makes perfect sense that the two go hand-in-hand. As these 5 successfully crowdfunded standing desks show, that’s a premise that backers can get behind. Kudos to both the…
Read More The Best Successfully Crowdfunded Standing Desks (And What They All Have in Common)
Our sortable table of every standing desk on the market gets a lot of traffic. And everyone who uses their standing desk with any regularity should have an anti-fatigue mat. So, we thought, we should do table just like that of all the mats on the market! But as we…
Read More The Best Standing Desk Mat (One of These Things is Not Like the Others)
The real benefit of standing desks is that they allow you to move more. We’ve covered that before. We’ve also said that blood flow is incredibly important, and that humans are designed to have healthy blood flow only when our calves flex regularly, as they do when walking. So it…
It’s no secret that exercise can’t save you from the ill effects of prolonged sitting. But did you know that sitting actually damages your exercise? It’s true. Your butt isn’t designed to be a load-bearing surface. That prolonged pressure on your backside causes myofascial adhesion – tissue effects that damage…
Read More Sticking Points: How Your Chair is Ruining Your Running
When your sleep is good, most everything just seems to work itself out. Waking up even a little groggy, on the other hand, just makes everything feel a little worse, all day long. So we’re big on improving sleep. That’s why we’ve written about how light affects your sleep (even…
Read More Improving Sleep with Smart Data (Or Why Sex Beats Breakfast)
The standard advice for standing desk posture is to operate with your elbows at a right angle. We think that’s a bad idea, and we’re here today to explain why. Let’s start with why that bad advice is so common. It’s because desks are flat. If you assume the desk is…
Read More Why You Don’t Want Your Arms at 90 Degrees at a Standing Desk
