I can personally attest to how well the wall angels(and its variations) work. The thing is, you've probably spent years in that wrong posture so you need to be diligent and disciplined about doing your stretches and the change won't happen overnight. Any changes to your computing setup, which you spend hours on, would also be of benefit. Having a desk job will destroy your body so anything you can do to delay this is a good thing to investigate.
Upvoting because this is useful for any programmer out there. If you're not in pain now, you will be...
Is office work really a curse on your body? Are there any alternatives? Is standing all day more beneficial? I find it difficult to get conclusive answers on this by myself.
What if I take a 5-minute break to walk outside every 45 minutes?
It's very difficult to find reliable sources on this. It seems everybody is just parroting whatever they currently believe. How can I find an authority on this subject?
> Take a movement break every 30 minutes, say experts. No matter how much you exercise, sitting for excessively long periods of time is a risk factor for early death, a new study published Monday in Annals of Internal Medicine found.
> There's a direct relationship between time spent sitting and your risk of early mortality of any cause, researchers said, based on a study of nearly 8,000 adults. As your total sitting time increases, so does your risk of an early death.
The positive news: People who sat for less than 30 minutes at a time had the lowest risk of early death.
In short, sitting time accrues in a health debt you can't pay back with breaks.
I am not sure that there is one. It hasn't been that long that people started sitting at their desks for 10+ hours a day so I'd imagine it would be a few more years until research starts going anywhere. Personally, I've been trying a few different things and letting my body tell me what feels right.
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Yes.
> Are there any alternatives?
Yes, jobs that provide more physical activity as part of your work.
> Is standing all day more beneficial?
No.
http://annals.org/aim/article/doi/10.7326/M17-0212
> Take a movement break every 30 minutes, say experts. No matter how much you exercise, sitting for excessively long periods of time is a risk factor for early death, a new study published Monday in Annals of Internal Medicine found.
> There's a direct relationship between time spent sitting and your risk of early mortality of any cause, researchers said, based on a study of nearly 8,000 adults. As your total sitting time increases, so does your risk of an early death. The positive news: People who sat for less than 30 minutes at a time had the lowest risk of early death.
In short, sitting time accrues in a health debt you can't pay back with breaks.