Posture · Hips · Legs
Stand and shift
Position change · Standing
- How to do it
- Stand up. Shift your weight slowly from one foot to the other, letting your hips and shoulders move with it.
- Dose
- 30s
- What you should feel
- Your weight moving through your feet and hips
- Common mistake
- Locking your knees and standing rigidly still.
- Make it easier
- Stand with a hand on the desk.
- Avoid this movement if
- You cannot stand safely.
- Why DeskBreak uses it
- Changing position is the point of a movement break. Standing and shifting is the smallest version of that which still counts.
Stop this movement if it causes sharp or worsening pain, numbness, weakness or dizziness.
Evidence
Moderate evidence.
- Breaking up prolonged sitting reduces postprandial glucose and insulin responses (Diabetes Care, 2012)
- The sedentary office: an expert statement on the growing case for change towards better health and productivity (British Journal of Sports Medicine, 2015)
- Does physical activity attenuate, or even eliminate, the detrimental association of sitting time with mortality? (The Lancet, 2016)