When I was a practicing mechanical engineer, I was tasked with designing a big steel structure to be placed in high winds in the desert. I ran calculations and designed the structure. The parts were made in a factory, and shipped to the field for assembly. When construction was complete, my…
Read More If We Design It Right, It Should All Break At The Same Time
We love lateralization of skills here. And slacklining (think tight-rope walking without the tight) is a great way to build a stronger core, better balance and coordination, and encourage healthy tissue sliding. Put it outside, and you’re getting some nature time and Vitamin D as well. I got a slackline…
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David is the best athlete I have ever known, and I’ve known many athletes. I met him when I was 12, and his athletic proficiency was clear even then. At the time, he had successfully convinced his dad to build him a halfpipe, and was learning “aggressive rollerblading” (it was…
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…
