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The common phrase “Sitting is the New Smoking” is not entirely true. Sedentary lifestyle, or not moving, is the real reason sitting is so harmful to our health.

If we took our 8-hour workday we spend sedentary and decided to move every 3-5 minutes, we would negate the negative effects of our entire workday of sitting. And by move I simply mean stand up and sit back down. (total of 4 seconds of moving)

Why does this work? Check out this illustration: https://www.movably.com/chart-2

Turns out, spinal discs are the largest tissue in the body with no direct blood supply. It relies on increasing and decreasing pressure on it to ‘breath’ / get blood to diffuse through it. How do you consistently increase and decrease pressure on the spin? You got it, movement!

The trick is how do we move our lower spine every 3-5 minutes during our workday without disrupting our focus and workflow? That is the exact problem the startup I work for tackled. We have come up with a super cool, effective and non-ridiculous smart chair that works with your body to get the movement we all need.

If anyone is interested, we are looking to learn from a wider audience through customer discovery calls. If you are interested and have 15 minutes to chat, I’d love to connect: https://movably.typeform.com/to/y5NPOA2U