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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

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Hi HN, I am one of the founders at https://www.movably.com/ . If you work at a desk for extended periods you may have heard the call to “move more” or that "the best posture is your next posture". The problem is we also have to get our work done. That’s what we are solving with our smart interactive chair. Research shows that moving more often is one of the most effective ways to prevent the health problems caused by…

i’d love to try it. do you need a beta tester in the US 10003? i wfh, am a ux designer.

Hello bettyx1138 - funny, it's not exact, but just drove by the flatiron building this AM. Let us know - https://movably.typeform.com/to/Nyo8603J Can answer any questions/concerns.

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

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Nah. Give me a standing desk that I can lower all the way down to a squat. Scratch that: just give me a wooden box to squat on. Where will I put that box, though? I don’t know… (Warning: rant incoming) It’s interesting that this “sitting is [literally] the new smoking” study-shows movement has shown how limited ergonomic tools are. Maybe some ergonomic tools are just a grift to paper over the inherent defiencies of o…

A prior workplace had a group of people that would, daily after lunch, do a basic workout to keep the blood flowing. I loved this, and the social component made it easy. We did two minutes of lunges or squats, two minutes of plank, two minutes of wall sits, two minutes of push-ups, or something like that.

For anti-myopia, lots of natural light from big windows could help, giving you things to look at. For my own poorly lit space, I added bright lights that try to match the sun's visible spectrum. Though, who am I to say, one of my eyes has been getting blurry in the periphery lately...

A workplace that is flexible enough and not militantly busy allows you to take breaks during the day to go on walks. I work from home and do this at least once a day during the workday. It does take time I could be filling out tickets, but I find it revitalizes me, clears my head, helps me process emotions enough that it's absolutely worth it from a productivity perspective.

But part of what you're saying is that perspective is inherently antithetical to the type of rhythm that values movement. It would be naive to think that the point where well-being is at it's peak is also the point where maximal value is created for the company. I don't know how to get to the point where we value the one over the other, as a society. Ideally we don't have targeted solutions, but the kind of environment where the behaviors we want just "fall out" naturally... Having a real say in the type and manner of work and working environment would go a long way.

Structuring cities with better public transit would help cut down the sitting commute. At my prior job, I had maybe 40 minutes of walking there and back (+20 on the train), this was built in to my schedule, no special effort required. If I had a car I would have had much less daily exercise. (And I recognize we do not live in the kind of society where everyone has that time to spare, and that's a damn shame.)

I've also been thinking about hobbies that just involve more exercise. (Have personally found exercise for it's own sake hard to sustain.) How do I design my daily environment such that being active is the path of least resistance? (Maybe walking to the grocery store, and getting fewer things so I go more often. Maybe having my standing desk be easy to use.)

The answer might be just having less work, and more time to do things on your own. More breaks, more discretionary time, fewer hours worked. Remote work is good for this, valuing work done over butts-in-seats time.

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

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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…

I take ergonomics in my home office very seriously, and am theoretically the target customer for this, but I have the same concerns you do. The marketing material on the website is blatantly BS.

For the price of this you can buy a used ergo chair and hire an ergo consultant to come to your house and help you set it up.

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

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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…

What did the studies actually measure? Pain? Because you’re claiming the chair “outperformed” the others in the study and that can mean anything.
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