Why Does Standing Desk Benefit For People’s Health?

More and more office desks such as standing desks launched on the market announcing that they are ergonomically designed with several benefits for human body. Almost everyone would tell you that sitting for long period is not good for your health. But do you know the specific reasons of sitting for a long period. Let’s take a look together.

 

 

What are the disadvantages of sitting down all the day?

 

More and more people sit down on their chair to deal with their daily work everyday and according to researches the average working time of people is up to 8 hours which means most of us should sit down over 8 hours per day. Sitting for a long period can not only cause a widening rear end but also trigger potential risks for your health such as heart disease.

 

1. Weak legs and glutes

Sitting down on your chair for a long period can weaken thigh and leg muscles since you won’t use them while sitting on your chair. But thigh and leg muscles are important to stabilize your body. While you won’t feel your thigh and legs are getting weak gradually, you must feel more difficult for you to run a moment or walking over 10000 steps.

 

2. Weight gain

It is a commonsense that exercising is conducive to our body since doing exercising can accelerate the secretion of molecules like lipoprotein lipase which helps your body absorb the fats and sugars. According to researches, these molecules will reduce when you spend over 6 to 8 hours sitting down on a chair. Therefore it is unavoidable that more and more fats and sugars are remained on your body which makes you look fatter and also makes your skin worse.

 

 

3. Tight hips and a bad back

Sitting for a long period can also cause harmful influence on your hips and back. Sitting causes your hip flexors to shorten, and your seated position can also hurt your back, particularly if you have bad posture. What’s more, incorrect sitting position can lead to great pressure on the discs in your spine furthermore resulting in chronic pain.

 

What’s standing desk?

 

As its name implies, it is a much taller desk than the ordinary desk which allows people to work while standing up. So it is well known as stand-up desk. And after years upgrading, many standing desk has been adjustable which allows people to switch your working posture freely from sitting to standing up. They are also called as height-adjustable desks, or sit-stand desks.

 

In conclusion

 

Though there are many people still being skeptical about standing desk or adjustable desk since they believed that both sitting for a long period and standing up for a long period are harm to our health. But as we have mentioned above, standing desk can at least reduce the passive effect of sitting for a long period as it can allows people to switch their working posture to relax their body.

 

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