Do a standing desk challenge for a day.

“I was super excited to be productive while standing up, but one thing I wasn’t prepared for? The desire to move around a lot once I was upright. As soon as I started standing to do work, it became easy to wander mid-thought. I found myself walking over to my kitchen or schlepping around my room instead of focusing at my computer screen, which meant I was getting fewer things done than I would be if I were sitting. Until that moment, I hadn’t realized that one great thing about sitting is that you are, in fact, stationary (read: tied to your computer).”

“Like any other form of exercise, standing for long periods of time is something you have to work up to and practice for weeks and months to get good at it. Don’t expect to be standing for eight hours straight like a champ on day one. I personally started feeling tired after about 30-40 minutes after forgoing my chair. [...] Overall, standing instead of sitting definitely had an impact on my work. I found myself feeling less fatigued over the course of the day, and I felt healthier even after only a week of testing this exercise out. Standing forces you to be alert in a way that sitting doesn’t, and, for me, that made the distractions caused by wandering worth it.”

“Hi y'all. I'd like to share my first day experience with a standing desk and see if it resonates with anyone. I'm a somewhat chubby very sedentary guy. I think I used the desk for an hour or a little less before having to sit. Then I worked 2 more hours intercalating sitting and standing. While standing I got some back ache and that's mainly what limited my standing time. Now that I'm resting I'm feeling unusually great, relaxed as if I had worked out.”