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Sitting all day, done properly
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Posture braces work, but not the way they are sold
The strap is sold as a corrective device and it is really a cue. That distinction sounds academic until you notice it decides whether anything survives taking the thing off.
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A strong core is not what keeps you upright
The theory that one deep abdominal muscle stabilises the spine built an entire industry out of a study about timing. What holds you up at a desk was never strength in the first place.
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Your shoulders are not tight, they are still switched on
The muscle across the top of your shoulder recruits the same small fibres first every time and releases them last. At a desk that means a few of them never get a break all day.
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The feet on your keyboard are tilting it the wrong way
Almost every keyboard has flip-out legs at the back, almost everybody uses them, and they raise the end that should be lower. Folding them away is free, and it is a bigger change than the keyboard you were about to buy.
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A desk is the one distance your glasses were not made for
Distance lenses are ground for the road and reading lenses for a book. A monitor sits between the two, which is why so many people finish the day leaning in with their chin up.
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Your 3pm coffee is still in you at bedtime
Caffeine has a half-life of about five hours, so a mid-afternoon cup is a quarter of a cup at one in the morning. It does not produce alertness either. It hides the absence of it.
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