Welcome to the Get Fit Guys' Quick and Dirty Tips to Slim Down and Shape Up.

My name is Ben Greenfeld. I'm the Get Fit Guy. And in today's episode, you're going to get eight

alternatives to sitting at your desk. So a couple of years ago at the Ancestral Health

Symposium, I presented a poster, and I'll link to the poster in the show notes.

If you go to Quick and Dirty Tips.com, you'll want to look for the show notes to this episode, episode number 271.

Anyways, the poster was called Biohacking the Hazards of Sitting.

Well, as you'll see, I actually thought I was being quite witty to present that poster on the dangers of sitting while I was sitting with poor posture in a folding chair.

Just check out the video and also the poster. Again, the show notes are episode 271 at quick and dirty tips.com.

Anyways, it's actually been over five years since I've personally adopted the habit of frequently alternating positions throughout my workday.

And I highlight that strategy in articles like, how should you stand at a standing desk?

In my podcast about memory foam and the science of walking barefoot in shoes.

My own personal office is actually like a tiny playground.

It's littered with kettlebells, a

pull-up bar, a boxing bag, a treadmill workstation, and a variety of standing surfaces, including

an acupressure mat that I've wrapped around a standing mat. Yeah, I get a little bit crazy. So anyways,

in the Get Fit Guy episode, seven ways to stand more, I tell you that I choose to

alternate between so many different positions during the day because when you stand in just

one position, it can be tiring and put undue stress on your feet, ankles, hips, and back,

if that's your only position during the day.

So in today's episode, without a particular order of importance, I'm going to give you the eight most popular positions I personally adopt during a tip of the day. So in today's episode, without a particular order of importance, I'm going

to give you the eight most popular positions I personally adopt during a typical week of work.

Number one is the lunge. I'll often fold up a towel or use a foam mat and simply lunge at a table

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