Anyone else feel the constant urge to leave the field and become a plumber?

Re:Anyone else feel the constant urge to leave the field and... by jjcon on Sunday February 13, 2022 @01:28PM (#30324162)

Eh didn’t it turn out that most of that was drummed out in the 2012 era by a few doctors selling books and partnering with exercise and standing desk companies? I feel like most of the more recent stuff I have read has said, yes get your exercise in but sitting itself isn’t actually bad, certainly not the whole ‘1 hour of sitting reduces your life by 1 day’ sort of stuff we heard a decade+ ago.

https://www.cnn.com/2017/02/21/health/sitting-study-partner/...

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Re:Anyone else feel the constant urge to leave the field and... by jvanderbot on Sunday February 13, 2022 @01:31PM (#30324199)

My confusion is that "sitting" is confounded with "never exercising". If you exercise 5m/hr for 16hrs (and sleep 8), you have accumulated a huge amount of sitting time, but also a really big amount of exercise time. Nobody does that, but what if we did?

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Re:Anyone else feel the constant urge to leave the field and... by brnaftr361 on Sunday February 13, 2022 @01:50PM (#30324380)

I read somewhere that somebody did some study with god knows what methodology (people like to use current-world HG communities, not representative of ancestry) and decided that our ancestors walked about 12mi/day. That's about 3-4h of walking daily. We have like 280k years of that selection criteria. But also we came from apes, so we're sorta shitty at this upright stuff.

An aside: I also just loathe ergonomic design, I'm never comfortable in anything other than a recliner or laying on a couch or bed. I'm wholly convinced that chairs are the way they are because "they've always been that way" with tables and desks following suit. It's unfortunate that better designs haven't caught on, aren't readily available, and tend to be inordinately expensive. What I'd really like to see is a practical true to form holistic ergonomic design instead of this weird traditionally inspired clusterfuck with its productivity centric model.

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Re:Anyone else feel the constant urge to leave the field and... by DavidPiper on Sunday February 13, 2022 @04:44PM (#30325981)

> It's unfortunate that better designs haven't caught on, aren't readily available, and tend to be inordinately expensive.

Do you have any links to examples of these different designs? After using a bunch of different chairs, I'm seriously considering just repurposing my piano stool, even though I'll lose all the back support.

I just can't find anything sustainably comfortable and supportive.

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Re:Anyone else feel the constant urge to leave the field and... by brnaftr361 on Sunday February 13, 2022 @06:20PM (#30326611)

HAG has the Capisco, which I've eyed. There are also kneeling chairs, they tilt the pelvis forward, they can be had cheaply, but I'd hate to buy one just to throw it out. Of course there are the ball based chairs and such.

I sit seiza-style on my chair currently to enforce good posture by tilting the pelvis, but it's taxing after a while, and it took me a long time to adjust to seiza, I use a standing desk in complement.

https://store.flokk.com/us/en-gb/products/hag-capisco?model=...

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