Posture · Upper back
Standing posture reset
Position change · Standing
- How to do it
- Stand with feet under the hips, soft knees. Stack ears over shoulders over hips. Grow tall through the crown of the head without locking the knees or flaring the ribs.
- Dose
- 45s
- What you should feel
- Your whole front side lengthening
- Common mistake
- Locking knees or puffing the chest.
- Make it easier
- Stand for a shorter time with a hand on the desk.
- Avoid this movement if
- You cannot stand safely.
- Why DeskBreak uses it
- Standing up is the single biggest change of position available at a desk. This makes it deliberate.
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)