Sitting May Be Bad for Your Heart
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Sitting May Be Bad for Your Heart
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Re: Sitting May Be Bad for Your Heart
#2TL;DR - We don't really know.
(but here's an observational study that says the more you sit around the higher your troponin levels are, and those are bad, so try to walk around more.)
Re: Sitting May Be Bad for Your Heart
#3I hope this study don't revive the trend of standing desks again. Look I know being sedentary will rob me a few years of life, but going full opposite and being stand 9 to 5 it's Dante inferno at work.
Probably the best balance will be having a routine with exercise present, and small breaks to stand and walk a little bit at X minutes sitting.
Re: Sitting May Be Bad for Your Heart
#4TL;DR - We don't really know. (but here's an observational study that says the more you sit around the higher your troponin levels are, and those are bad, so try to walk around more.)
> so try to walk around more
Even though we just said it's probably not going to help.
Re: Sitting May Be Bad for Your Heart
#5I dunno if sitting is bad or not -- but ever since I got a fitted desk and put a Deskcycle under it I've felt super great. It's a bit awkward always being a little bit sweaty though (I put in ~50 miles a day).
Re: Sitting May Be Bad for Your Heart
#6I hope this study don't revive the trend of standing desks again. Look I know being sedentary will rob me a few years of life, but going full opposite and being stand 9 to 5 it's Dante inferno at work. Probably the best balance will be having a routine with exercise present, and small breaks to stand and walk a little bit at X minutes sitting.
At home I have a desk I can take up and down. Some days I sit, some days I stand. I think that's the best
Re: Sitting May Be Bad for Your Heart
#7I hope this study don't revive the trend of standing desks again. Look I know being sedentary will rob me a few years of life, but going full opposite and being stand 9 to 5 it's Dante inferno at work. Probably the best balance will be having a routine with exercise present, and small breaks to stand and walk a little bit at X minutes sitting.
It's almost as if it's lack of constant (even low-grade) activity that's the problem, rather than whether you're sitting or standing. Perhaps not moving all day is the cause.
Re: Sitting May Be Bad for Your Heart
#8I dunno if sitting is bad or not -- but ever since I got a fitted desk and put a Deskcycle under it I've felt super great. It's a bit awkward always being a little bit sweaty though (I put in ~50 miles a day). https://deskcycle.com/
Does it have inertia as well as resistance? I bought one several years ago that had absolutely no inertia and it was just horrible to use.
Re: Sitting May Be Bad for Your Heart
#9I hope this study don't revive the trend of standing desks again. Look I know being sedentary will rob me a few years of life, but going full opposite and being stand 9 to 5 it's Dante inferno at work. Probably the best balance will be having a routine with exercise present, and small breaks to stand and walk a little bit at X minutes sitting.
Something a bit more like this every morning at work?
Re: Sitting May Be Bad for Your Heart
#10I dunno if sitting is bad or not -- but ever since I got a fitted desk and put a Deskcycle under it I've felt super great. It's a bit awkward always being a little bit sweaty though (I put in ~50 miles a day). https://deskcycle.com/
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