The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson, and is narrated by Tina Lehman.

How to create your own active workstation.

Five years ago, we're all about the standing workstation.

Sitting kills, we said. It's the new smoking.

So we should do the opposite. Stand all day long, right?

It turns out that standing all day isn't much better.

The real issue is lack of movement. When we sit or stand all day long

in the same position, our body is learning to be immobile. Children can't sit still because they haven't

had the natural human need to move beaten out of them yet. Adults never feel like moving because we've

grown accustomed to never

doing it. Since we spent at least a third of our lives at work, our workstation must enable

and even encourage movement. How do we do it? What do we need? First, the desk. You don't have to stand all day.

I don't even recommend you stand in the same place all day.

But you should have the option, so first on your list is a solid or precarious, depending on your tolerance, standing workstation setup.

IKEA has some good sit-stand desk options.

They aren't cheap, though. A portable lectern

works for laptop users is fairly inexpensive and it's mobile. Roll that thing all over the place

and adjust the height to suit your dimensions. The ORA stand is made of cardboard, folds flat when

not in use, and can support up to 60 pounds. It's

$25 and has a two-tier system meant for people using laptops with wireless keyboards.

Back in the early days, we used to stack shipping boxes to create standing workstations in the

Primal Nutrition Office. It wasn't pretty, but it got the job done.

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