An adult spends an average of 8.5 hours of sitting a day. It should be mentioned that the blood circulation of the legs decreases by 50 % after just one hour. Many symptoms of illness are due to a lack of exercise. Each: R knows back, head or neck pain, they affect our everyday life and block our physical and mental flexibility.
Pain wants to indicate an imbalance in the body. If we do not react promptly, this pain shifts on a mentally-soul level. Lack of exercise therefore not only endangers our physical health, but also has a significant impact on our psychological well -being.
Regular exercise - especially in nature - can provide both relief of painful symptoms as well as more vitality, relaxation and creativity.
In addition to active movement options such as yoga, walks in nature, sporty active workouts and much more, there are already approaches to change inactive seating behavior in active sitting.
We love dynamic sitting
Dynamic sitting is an innovative method in which you do not sit rigidly on a chair, but keep moving and changing your seating position.
The flexible stool out Stapelstein® Originals and one Stapelstein® Board is the sophisticated alternative to conventional inflexible seating.
This is how a dynamic stool works:
The stool can be stacked by the upside of Originals Adjust to the corresponding seat height child's play. The Board serves as a seat. By setting up the curve of the Originals There is movement on the floor. The ergonomic chair is suitable for both children and adults and is a benevolent asset. For example, it can be used as a desk stool for children. If the stool is not needed in between, the stacking elements serve to the children's free movement and fantasy games or they can be practical helpers in everyday life, such as a flexible staircase, a storage shell or a swimmins in the water.
That is why dynamic sitting is good for you:
Natural movement impulses ensure that the fuselage and back muscles are well supplied with blood. The holding fascia, the deep muscle layers are called, significantly benefit from the small dynamic movements. While you do your work in the home office or in the office, you strengthen your back by active sitting. You improve your posture and at the same time apply your inner attitude. You increase your ability to resilience, create cognitive clarity and emotional balance. Your breathing flows deeper, you are more relaxed, your energy level increases and your performance increases.
Dynamic sitting for children
Does silent sit really promotes concentration? Numerous observations show that passive sites have a negative impact on the willingness to learn and the ability to absorb. Therefore, one pleads to give much more significance to the moving basic need of the body. According to the WHO, children should move actively at least 60 minutes a day.
Children who sit on a dynamic desk of stools achieve better learning success, can concentrate many times better and are more balanced. Dynamic sitting is a great option, especially for children with ad (h) s. Motor skills, kinesthetic perception and balance are trained as a positive side effect and incorrect posture can be corrected.
Dynamic sitting in daycare and school
Dynamic sitting offers at school and in kindergarten for both children and the educator: Inside many advantages:
- The coherence between physical and mental tension and relaxation has a positive effect on the absorption capacity and endurance for learning -intensive phases.
- Children who sit on a dynamic stool can focus longer on one topic, deeper deal with the learning content and are more attentive.
- Pedagogue: Inside, with an upright posture, the child can encounter at eye level, since the height is variable.
- In contrast to passive sitting posture, dynamic seats breastfeeds the innate, development -promoting urge to move.
Movement should be possible anytime and anywhere. Children are always looking for freedom of movement because they follow their inner urge to move. This basic need may and should be lived - also (or in particular) as an adult: r.
Dynamic sitting is a great way to promote health and well -being in the sense of holistic. Active sitting cultivates a healthy external and inner attitude, it helps to counteract dysfunctions and improves the willingness to learn and performance.
Finally, an invitation to you for a small thought experiment: What if we had never learned to sit still?
