How to Sit Correctly with Good Posture So You Don’t Kill Yourself

Are standing desks last year’s advice? Whatever. Unless you’re lucky enough to be on your feet all day for work, you probably sit too much. We all do. When we go home, we sit on the couch. When we have dinner, we sit on a chair. When we watch a movie, we sit in the theater. When we go out, we sit on a stool. Our life is full with sitting interrupted by little moments of walking so it’s important to, well, be good at it. This animation video shows you the correct posture for sitting. [Flikli via Laughing Squid]

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Sitting Is the Smoking of Our Generation

I find myself, probably like many of you, spending way too much time in front of my computer. When I do face-to-face meetings, my colleagues and I typically met around some conference table, sometimes at an airport lounge (nothing like getting the most out of a long layover), and quite often at coffee shops (hello Starbucks!). But that means that the most common denominator across all these locations wasn’t the desk, or, the keyboard, or even the coffee. The common denominator in the modern workday is our, um, tush. More »