Office Exercise

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Heaps of stuff about how to get the best out of your active workspace. Stand sit desks, wobble stools, ergonomic seating - how to get the most of them ? Articles, posts, links and viewpoints in abundance.

Do you need a wobble stool or a swiss ball ?

Stuart Davenport

3 min read

Do you need a wobble stool or a swiss ball ?

There are a whole lot of people who have been using Swiss balls ( or balance balls) while sitting at work for years now. They swear by...

Stuart Davenport

4 min read

Do standing desks improve your health ?

We've taken a slightly different approach to this question. We've taken the best research available and added anecdotal evidence that we...

Is it Ok to stand all day at a standing desk ?

Stuart Davenport

1 min read

Is it Ok to stand all day at a standing desk ?

We get this question a lot...And this our spin on it.. In general, it is not a good idea to be in the same position doing ANYTHING for...

Stuart Davenport

1 min read

Victorian gyms

For some reason looking at these pictures of victorian gyms make me think of three things: 1/ Gyms are not a new thing. They have been...

Anyone for desk yoga on your sit stand desk

Stuart Davenport

1 min read

Anyone for desk yoga on your sit stand desk

Try Desk Yoga. This will go down well in Wellington ?

"The life changing magic of not sitting still..."

Stuart Davenport

1 min read

"The life changing magic of not sitting still..."

You know that we never bring the standard exercise dross to these pages. If it is here - it is because it IS good. What I love about this...

Micromovements videos - office exercises at your desk..

Stuart Davenport

1 min read

Micromovements videos - office exercises at your desk..

Over time we have put together a veritable library of exercises and movement you can do at work without people thinking you are some sort...

Stuart Davenport

1 min read

Permanent Pain Cure

Some days I find myself showing stand sit desks and active work tools to a whole lot of people in my warehouse in Petone. They are all...

Stuart Davenport

1 min read

No foot rests sorry...

Occasionally I get asked for stuff that we don't have. And if people ask enough, I have to go through the process of asking myself why we...

Stuart Davenport

1 min read

It's not serious :-))

Great article telling you not to worry about your back pain....it'll be fine just get moving :-)

Stuart Davenport

1 min read

Is sitting killing you ? - Podcast

I'd love to be able to say there is something new in this but there isn't really. A useful discussion of the issues around sedentary...

Stuart Davenport

1 min read

Chairs are a relatively new phenomenon

Have a listen to this podcast . It talks about "sitting" as a part of the evolutionary process. It is a relatively new phenomenon and...

Get a yoga block and work out at your desk...

Stuart Davenport

1 min read

Get a yoga block and work out at your desk...

You don't need much to be able to exercise while you are standing at your desk but a yoga block helps heaps... They cost $15 from...

Stuart Davenport

1 min read

Micromovements- balance discs

These cool little squashy discs open up new vistas for exercise while standing at your desk. We don't need to describe them cause we made...

Stuart Davenport

1 min read

"Bone on bone" knee pain

How you visualise your pain directly influences how you experience it. David Butler - an Australian Physio explains in this video how...

Stuart Davenport

1 min read

More squatting at your desk

We are so into the idea of squatting instead of just standing at your desk - we are thinking of launching a squat-sit desk (just...

Stuart Davenport

1 min read

Single leg rise test...

Try this test. Getting out of your chair rising on single leg. Basically there is research to say that if you can do 16+ on each leg you...

Stuart Davenport

1 min read

Movement that works !!

This is what we do when we have an idea for ways you can exercise and move in the office. We get some customers and we test it with them....

Stuart Davenport

1 min read

Desk Yoga anyone ?

Anyone for desk yoga ? ? Or you can just check out some of the free videos here.

Stuart Davenport

1 min read

Healthy Movement

It's worth occasionally going back to why movement is important to us as human beings. The guys at Precision Nutrition have got it right...