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Sitting down too much is doing more harm to your body than you can imagine

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Re: Sitting down too much is doing more harm to your body than you can imagine

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Post by nlh »

Side note: the entire site (http://elth.co) appears to be a single-person operation (a side project even — “I am currently put up in the lovely city of Bangalore in India, working for a startup as an Android Engineer.”)

Kudos to the creator (OP). Looks to be a very well-done (if click-baity, but hey, that’s how you....well....kind of...get clicks these days) project, and it comes across very much like many of the larger content creators.

Care to share some background on the project? Looks like you launched pretty recently. Goals? Am I correct in my assumptions here?

Re: Sitting down too much is doing more harm to your body than you can imagine

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Post by madmax108 »

shadowmint wrote: post #53

> When you need to ask a colleague something, walk up to his/her desk instead of dropping a message 'Did you get that email I sent you?' Ahhhhhh~ No. Please don't. There's plenty of good advice on this article, but be careful that the things that you do for yourself don't negatively impact other people ; that's not be healthy, its being thoughtless and selfish.

Seriously, I cannot think of something more irritating than this. I worked with a person who was more senior in my org who had this habit.

Not only did that piss me off because I would be in the zone (I usually leave my phone at my desk and close all emal/slack tabs to not be disturbed) when he would totally interrupt for a silly question (a la the "did you get my mail?" question).

Please please don't do this. Nothing comes across more selfish and signals that you feel that your time is more important than mine to me than this.

Re: Sitting down too much is doing more harm to your body than you can imagine

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Post by carapace »

johndoe489 wrote: post #88

Meh. I've been sitting at a computer for the past twenty years or so let's be honest. Yet in just a few months I feel my posture improving since I started psychotherapy and somatic experiencing therapy for trauma. Along with that I go to yoga once or twice a week. It's importnat to note here because I see the cogs spinning already... I actually did yoga years ago and did not notice the same effects. Therapy has been…

> My conclusion is a lot of bodily tensions are connected with unresolved emotional charges. This is related to the nervous system at some level.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Reich#Character_Analys...

> ... Reich proposed a functional identity between the character, emotional blocks, and tension in the body, or what he called character (or muscular/body) armour (Charakterpanzer).

Re: Sitting down too much is doing more harm to your body than you can imagine

#134

Post by ivansavz »

l0b0 wrote: post #85
aswanson wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It never ceases to amaze me how much others think they entitled to your time while working. They'll start conversations when all nonverbal signals show you are trying to get something done. Im at the point where I am going to be forced to be outright rude, which is not easy for me, just to be able to work undisturbed.

"Can we talk about this later? I need to get done by ." isn't rude (at least by my barbarian standards), and it would be very rude to ignore such a request.

But isn't the mental energy required to come up with this answer (and judge its rude/nonrude status) already a distraction? Once you've left the bubble, there is a cost to coming back into the zone.

In my experience it's difficult to set the bubble boundaries. Some days I'm working on small tasks and wouldn't mind being interrupted, other days I need uninterrupted concentration. It's hard to communicate that with colleagues. Maybe there should be a general rule — mornings in the zone, then after lunch handle all tasks that require sync-up + training + selling.

Re: Sitting down too much is doing more harm to your body than you can imagine

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Post by baby »

madmax108 wrote: post #132
shadowmint wrote: post #53

> When you need to ask a colleague something, walk up to his/her desk instead of dropping a message 'Did you get that email I sent you?' Ahhhhhh~ No. Please don't. There's plenty of good advice on this article, but be careful that the things that you do for yourself don't negatively impact other people ; that's not be healthy, its being thoughtless and selfish.

Seriously, I cannot think of something more irritating than this. I worked with a person who was more senior in my org who had this habit. Not only did that piss me off because I would be in the zone (I usually leave my phone at my desk and close all emal/slack tabs to not be disturbed) when he would totally interrupt for a silly question (a la the "did you get my mail?" question). Please please don't do this. Nothin…

On the other hand, I feel like people like you make the office a worse place where talking and interacting with people is harder.

Re: Sitting down too much is doing more harm to your body than you can imagine

#136

Post by amelius »

shadowmint wrote: post #53

> When you need to ask a colleague something, walk up to his/her desk instead of dropping a message 'Did you get that email I sent you?' Ahhhhhh~ No. Please don't. There's plenty of good advice on this article, but be careful that the things that you do for yourself don't negatively impact other people ; that's not be healthy, its being thoughtless and selfish.

> 'Did you get that email I sent you?'

Just for fun, somebody should write a "track-and-trace" type of website for email. Then whenever somebody asks that question, give them a track and trace code.

Re: Sitting down too much is doing more harm to your body than you can imagine

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Post by carapace »

ruleordie wrote: post #64

> Anyways, it’s not that complex to tackle this. A few changes in your habits should do the trick. This is complete garbage. The fact is, there is nothing you do to do 100% reverse the effects of sitting all day. You can maybe improve things by 20% or something like that. Progressive people keep hoping that you can use some kind of technology to change things but you can't. Standing desks don't do anything, standing…

Image search for "new guinea tribes" shows a lot of people who look pretty physically fit.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=new+guinea+tribes&t=hb&iax=1&ia=im...

Re: Sitting down too much is doing more harm to your body than you can imagine

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Post by Tharkun »

baby wrote: post #135
madmax108 wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seriously, I cannot think of something more irritating than this. I worked with a person who was more senior in my org who had this habit. Not only did that piss me off because I would be in the zone (I usually leave my phone at my desk and close all emal/slack tabs to not be disturbed) when he would totally interrupt for a silly question (a la the "did you get my mail?" question). Please please don't do this. Nothin…

On the other hand, I feel like people like you make the office a worse place where talking and interacting with people is harder.

Why are you at the office? To chat? Or to get work done? They are sometimes mutually exclusive.

Re: Sitting down too much is doing more harm to your body than you can imagine

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Post by Antrikshy »

nlh wrote: post #131

Side note: the entire site ( http://elth.co ) appears to be a single-person operation (a side project even — “I am currently put up in the lovely city of Bangalore in India, working for a startup as an Android Engineer.”) Kudos to the creator (OP). Looks to be a very well-done (if click-baity, but hey, that’s how you....well....kind of...get clicks these days) project, and it comes across very much like many of the l…

That makes it even more impressive. My first thought when I saw the article was "this is a well designed website". I love the typography!

Re: Sitting down too much is doing more harm to your body than you can imagine

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Post by stinos »

Clubber wrote: post #112

I'm having a hard time distinguishing whether this is serious, or BS like herbal supplements. People have been sitting at desk jobs for over 100 years now and those people at an old age are living longer than anyone in history based on life expectancy.

People have been sitting at desk jobs for over 100 years now and those people at an old age are living longer than anyone in history based on life expectancy.

Isn't this one of those standard logic fallacies? I mean, A is true, B is true, but that does not mean B is true because A is true? There might be plenty of other factors affecting B. The advance in medical science for one. At least I always thought that alone was the most influencial factor on better life expectancy. Probably more than enough to even undo the effect of certain lifestyle habits making things worse.

But yes, the article pretty much fails to provide exact numbers or even estimates on how bad a sedentary lifestyle really is.

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