Setting Up Your Standing Desk Correctly | Tim Keeley | Physio REHAB
Channel: Physio Fitness | Physio REHAB | Tim Keeley
Date: 2022-03-16

#standingdesk #ergonomics #posture
Got a standing desk? Make sure you get the heights and positions all correct when you are both in sitting and standing and then get the right heights and positions for you and your equipment when transition from one to the other. 

1️⃣ Elbows dictate desk and chair height 
Ideally your elbows should be right angles or slightly less. But not more (i.e. not more bent). This will help you to set the right height of the main section of standing desk where your keyboard is, as well as your chair height when you are sitting. 

2️⃣ Monitor Height 
This will be different from sitting to standing so unless you have an adjustable raiser for your monitor you will need to put a portable raiser or books under the monitor to get it to the right height in standing. For both standing and sitting the correct height is having the top of the monitor at eye level. So when you lower the standing desk you will most likely need to lower the monitor again to keep this position when you are sitting. 

3️⃣ Chair Height and Foot Rest 
And those vertically challenged peps out there make sure you have a foot rest as well to keep your hip angle slightly below 90 deg.

4️⃣ Times
Everyone is different but we generally recommend 2 hrs up and then 2 hrs down, in the morning and the repeat again I the afternoon for a 8 hr work day.


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