Ask HN: How is your standing desk working for you? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: How is your standing desk working for you?

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Post by throwanem » Fri, Jul 28, 2017, 4:23 PM UTC

atmosx wrote: post #170

throwanem wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not just you. A few years back, I served as a docent for a week-long introductory course in bioinformatics tooling - almost all of which time I spent standing, and very little of it moving around. It was exhausting, and it hurt . I can do ten miles on foot in a day, up and down hills, through streams, and generally all over creation - and even so feel better the next morning than if I spent the same time standing sti…

Your posture might be the problem.

It would be super helpful to know more about how to identify and fix such problems! You seem knowledgeable on the subject. Perhaps you will share.

Re: Ask HN: How is your standing desk working for you?

#172

Post by atmosx » Sat, Jul 29, 2017, 7:00 AM UTC

throwanem wrote: post #171

atmosx wrote: post #170

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your posture might be the problem.

It would be super helpful to know more about how to identify and fix such problems! You seem knowledgeable on the subject. Perhaps you will share.

> You seem knowledgeable on the subject.

Not really, but the problem you describe is usually a sign of problems with posture.

An orthopaedic will be able to identify any posture issues easily.

We deal with posture when the problem is substantial/visible, but most people have subtle orthopaedic issues which can be the root cause of other, bigger problems and don't know about it until it's too late.

Re: Ask HN: How is your standing desk working for you?

#173

Post by botnik » Sat, Jul 29, 2017, 3:25 PM UTC

I've got a bad back...

Re: Ask HN: How is your standing desk working for you?

#174

Post by dahart » Mon, Jul 31, 2017, 2:42 PM UTC

mrfusion wrote: post #168

dahart wrote: post #30

Standing hurts my feet within 10-20 minutes, but I found a treadmill/walking desk to be something I could do all day long. It helped a lot with back pain, and as a side-effect it cured post-lunch sleepiness. Coding while walking was never a concentration problem for me, so I can only offer that as an anecdotal data point. It might be me, but maybe walking rather than standing makes it easier to concentrate? There wer…

Did you lose weight with a walking desk? 8 hours at 2mph is 16 miles per day!

No, but I wish. 2mph is too fast for me, I would walk at 1mph, and generally with meetings and lunch and talking to co-workers I would get 4-5 hours in, so 4 or 5 miles was a pretty good day.

I've actually exercised a lot my whole life and never been able to lose weight that way. If I don't track my intake, I end up compensating for exercise by eating more. I've only been able to lose weight by counting calories.