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Show HN: Movably – Protect your health, move more while you work

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Re: Show HN: Movably – Protect your health, move more while you work

#31
I have all the pains of a sedentary life spent huddled over a keyboard - heart attacks, slipped discs, all of it.

I now walk at least an hour every day if I can and three hour extended rambles on weekends, and I'm losing weight, in less pain, my head is clearer and I'm happier. It sounds stupid, maybe, but it's the truth.

If I had the money to blow on this chair, I'd buy an improved ebike with better range and ride that thing instead.

Re: Show HN: Movably – Protect your health, move more while you work

#32
> 82% of people who suffer from blood clots, sat for a significantly greater amount of time than the remaining 18%.

What? So of the group, who all had blood clots, a load of them sat more than the others? I'm struggling to draw a firm conclusion from that. What are you comparing that ratio to? If you picked a group of 100 people at random and found out how long they sat for, do you think it is likely or unlikely that 80% of the group sat more than the other 20%? If I bought 1,000 apples, and their size had a normal distribution, I could cut that distribution whether I want and thereby show that 80% of them are larger than the remaining 20%. I could say it and I would be right, but I've demonstrated nothing significant.

Re: Show HN: Movably – Protect your health, move more while you work

#33
post #6

I don’t get how this is better than a standing desk. People will make the same positions as they are here naturally when using a standing desk, and it costs $500 instead of $2000, and it doesn’t look silly.

The standing desk is a part of it, but a majority of standing desks are not used for the intended purpose- to switch form sitting to standing more frequently. The problem is a combination of the time and distraction, and also just forgetting to do so. The problem we feel is to solve is how to enable more movement, without interrupting work, in way that is easy to adopt.

i have a desk set at standing height and a stool. its not my only workspace...but i find it really convenient to be able to wander up and use the machine for a little while without sitting down, and doing so if I feel like it.

total cost - basically zero

Re: Show HN: Movably – Protect your health, move more while you work

#34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your landing page says there are studies. Where are the doi's or links to check those studies?

We finished the research study late last year and it should be published sometime this year. Happy to share the report, email me, mark at movably dot com. Everyone absolutely should be skeptical. I have tried a lot of chairs, the most recent which allowed me to re-position most was the Hag Capisco. But to some extent it still would interrupt focus. I have also found almost no research studies showing effectiveness of…

So by "there are studies" do you mean "there is one unpublished study"?

Re: Show HN: Movably – Protect your health, move more while you work

#35
post #32

> 82% of people who suffer from blood clots, sat for a significantly greater amount of time than the remaining 18%. What? So of the group, who all had blood clots, a load of them sat more than the others? I'm struggling to draw a firm conclusion from that. What are you comparing that ratio to? If you picked a group of 100 people at random and found out how long they sat for, do you think it is likely or unlikely that…

I'm glad I wasn't the only one confused by this, I was about to make the same comment!

Re: Show HN: Movably – Protect your health, move more while you work

#36
post #12

Um, the website is making a lot of claims and saying "there are studies". I would like to see the links to all studies to support made claims. "Proven by Science Recent study results prove that Movably is a highly effective solution. All participants reported no back discomfort. Using Movably outperformed standing and ergonomic chairs." Link to study? Highly effective solution to what? Back pain? Leg pain? Participan…

Yeah. If this site doesn't have your bullshit radar going nuts, it's time to recalibrate.

Re: Show HN: Movably – Protect your health, move more while you work

#37
post #25
post #13

To be honest, it IS a problem for a lot of people and they search around the internet. I did myself, and I never found a good solution but would have paid big money for one, and probably tried this one as well.

LMAO. New account, check. Presents a problem without solution that this products solves, check.

What I meant is that the solution is to even have a product, any product that TRIES to handle this situation. The fact that it is being handled by some product is itself a solution. I never would have had said it until I had this problem that the fact of the promise of a solution IS itself a solution, dumb as it may sound.

Re: Show HN: Movably – Protect your health, move more while you work

#40
post #13

To be honest, it IS a problem for a lot of people and they search around the internet. I did myself, and I never found a good solution but would have paid big money for one, and probably tried this one as well.

You "never found a good solution" to... being stationary? Did you consider as a solution, moving of your own accord?
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