Why should you alternate between sitting and standing during your day?

• Decrease back discomfort. You are stretching out your lumbar spine when standing and compressing the lumbar disks when sitting.

• Decrease neck discomfort. You are more likely to keep your head over your shoulders when standing versus sitting.

• Give your gluteus maximus a break from sitting.

• Increase blood flow through the body.

• You are more likely to move more when you are standing. Most people are not static when they stand but are static when they sit.

• When sitting or standing, you can put your leg on a footrest to change your hip position throughout the day.

• You should stand every hour for 10-15 minutes or to your tolerance. You should be standing a couple times in the morning and a couple times in the afternoon.

The following applies when you are sitting or standing:

• Elbows should be next to your body versus reaching forward for the keyboard or mouse.

• Your desk should be at or below your elbow height depending if you have to look at the keys when you are typing.

• If you use a keyboard tray, place the tray at your sitting or standing elbow height.

• Head should be over your shoulders versus turtling your head

• Chin should be level, not lifted or dropped.

• Sit back in your chair and use your chair backrest.

• Eyes should be looking at the top 1/4 of monitor screen and your eyes drift down throughout the day to see the whole screen.

• Knees and Hips at 90-100 degrees when sitting.

• Feet flat on the ground or on a footrest when sitting.