This has been on my radar since I learned last week that many people suffer from a form of breath-holding or apnea while working on the computer. Studies suggest that standing workstations tend to improve posture / breathing. The best solution of all seems to be moving while you’re working, setting up something like this bro’s workstation. Do you notice that you hold your breath when you sit down at the compu? I do.

 
 

About The Author

David Page

David is the Founding Editor of BETA, Matador's new print magazine. His guidebook to Yosemite, the Southern Sierra Nevada and Death Valley earned him a 2009 Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award, and was named "Best Guidebook of 2008" by the Outdoor Writers Association of California. He has written for the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Men's Journal and The New York Times. He lives on the edge of one of the largest calderas on earth, in Mammoth Lakes, California, with his wife, his two boys, and an illegal migrant canine avatar of the Aztec god Xolotl.

  • Vio

    wow, never noticed that, but I do as well..now will try to control it, thanks ^)

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