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Sitting all day, done properly
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Dead legs at a desk are not a circulation problem
Numb thighs, pins and needles and puffy ankles get blamed on poor circulation. Two of the three are nerve pressure, and the third is a muscle that stopped working.
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You do not need a 25-minute timer. You need to stand up.
Pomodoro, 52/17, the 90-minute cycle. The numbers get argued about endlessly and they are the least important part of taking breaks properly.
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Desk stretches do not undo sitting
Stretching feels wonderful and does almost nothing to the muscle. That is not a reason to stop, but it is a reason to stop expecting it to fix the day.
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10,000 steps was a brand name
It came from a Japanese pedometer sold in 1965, not from a study. The research since has landed somewhere lower, and somewhere more useful if you sit all day.
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The 3pm crash is not your lunch
It arrives whether you eat or not. Knowing what actually causes it changes which fixes are worth trying, and rules out the one everybody reaches for first.
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The eight glasses rule was never a rule
It appears to come from a 1945 sentence that also said most of it comes from food. What matters at a desk is not the total anyway. It is that you stopped noticing.
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