Chairs hrrm??

[tp4tissue]

The oldr Tp4 gets, the more it's blatantly obvious, humans were not designed to SIT.

Our cousins the apes and monkies, they're always moving, climbing, swinging.

Our forest living tribes spend most of the day walking/ foraging, on their feet.


The only time we even see any MOnKe doing something resembling Office-sitting, is in a ZOO, or huddled on a Tree during heavy snow, trying not to freeze to death.


<In all other circumstances> The proper position for humans is to be Erect and Mobile.


Tp4 has tried so many chairs, 5 knobs, all the buttons, adjust adjust adjust,  END OF THE DAY,  Nothing bests the comfort of using your Muscles, and just standing.

Sitting collapses your breathing depth. Because your gut is squeezed, you can't fully expand the lungs and breath deeply, it's like a chronic mild asphyxiation.


The chair is like wearing high heel shoes on your back. The body is not designed for it, and it basically cripples your anatomy.

Do not be tempted by malaise fellow hughmhans,  channel one's inner meerkat.

[Findecanor]

Consider a knee chair (without back support). You can only use it with an upright posture. It feels very natural, but is a little more tricky to get in and out of.

I still need to keep my right knee straight in front of the computer, or it will start hurting after a while, so I can't use one.

[Sniping]

chairs are fine if you ask me. standing, kneeling or whatever just doesn’t change the circumstances that much. most important thing is to break up time at the desk and set aside some time for quality exercise each day.

[tp4tissue]

Have tried the knee chair, but the chaffing, because Tp4 wears shorts.

[noisyturtle]

People were not meant to walk upright in the first place. None of that makes biological sense for our build. All that mass, balanced on two small connecting points, held up by a delicate skeletal structure?

[tp4tissue]

Sat in chair most of yesterday.

This morning woke up to hip pain, the pointy part right in front of lower back.

No idea. Chairs are bad indeed.

[tp4tissue]

Can not be overstated,

Motorized Lift = Critical for Perfect sit/stand TV-as-monitor use.


In general, there's no perfect height for a TV, different movies, different aspect ratios, sitting/ standing,

Different games require different heights because they use different camera positions. Racing.FPS.RTS.RPG etc.

It's just an awesome stand. Pretty fast too considering it's lifting TP's 77pound 77inch TV. For $170, they're basically giving it away. 

[tp4tissue]

If you wait on your spine,  it WILL defeat you..

Get off the chair Immediately.

[tp4tissue]

A big issue often overlooked is the severe muscular atrophy which happens with long duration seating.

The SPINE is naturally supported and maintained by all the surrounding tissue.

With the unnatural arrangement that is seated-life, those supports collapse along with posture, such that even when standing, the spine does not maintain its least energetic shape, further deepening the misalignments and mal-adaptive compressions.

This is not something exercise can fix.

Standing/walking is a complicated, low intensity workout, that the body is DESIGNED to maintain for many hours a day.

Absent that environment, and stimulus to the numerous Dependent-structures, a failure cascade is set in motion.


There is no such thing as an ergonomic chair.  There are only slightly milder crippling devices.