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The worst potential consequence of laying down is that your back muscles would become weaker. This is one of the reasons why sitting harms your back, and with laying down it would be even worse. Unless it's combined with some exercise it could be a really bad idea.
Are there good exercises for your back to offset sitting? Body weight exercises would be ideal.
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Are there good exercises for your back to offset sitting? Body weight exercises would be ideal.
Not body weight, but deadlifts are a good counteraction. Glutes, lower back and upper back all come into play.
A friend once said “There’s all these studies about how bad sitting is for you. Now there are even studies about how bad standing desks are for you. Nobody ever says anything bad about laying down so I just try to do that as much as possible.” I still laugh. Perhaps true in part though.
IME it's not sitting or standing or lying down that's injurious, it's not moving . My pain to a large extent went away when I stopped staying so still. Now I change my posture on the regular, from leaning against the backrest to sitting away from it to taking little breaks to pace around a bit. Similarly, I used to get eye strain from all the screen time. Until I moved to an office with a view and I found myself star…
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The worst potential consequence of laying down is that your back muscles would become weaker. This is one of the reasons why sitting harms your back, and with laying down it would be even worse. Unless it's combined with some exercise it could be a really bad idea.
I use a backless chair, called “The swooper”, imo it’s the best of both worlds. Sitting and standing. You can bounce aroundd on it which is fun too as the seat is mounted on a spring like a pogo stick. Apparently this bouncing helps keep the joints lubricated.
(Just for the benefit of anyone interested and trying to search for it :))
In college I had some back problems, so I improvised (an incredibly unwise) lay-down desk by putting my monitor face down on two chairs and just lying with my face underneath it. This was a heavy CRT, not a modern LCD monitor. (Did I mention this being incredibly unwise...?)
I use them for reading in bed, although sites do everything in their power to make landscape mode on mobile phones unusable.
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Hey friend, take a breath. Idk what’s going on in your world but you sound pretty stressed.
As someone who shares bloak's sentiment, there's two different verbs, lay and lie, and pointing out the difference is a hill worth dying on. (I doubt bloak is actually upset. It's mock outrage.) Edit: I was actually confused by the title of the submission which is illustrative of the distinction between the two words. To me, a lay down desk is a desk that can be laid flat, and that's what I thought this was going to…
I've found the best lying down desk is a $300 mini-projector and a yoga mat. You project at the ceiling (so projector is above your head) and then put a wireless keyboard on your stomach, with mouse by your side. Alternate with a standing desk. Good after 10 years of jiu-jitsu and a knackered body