Varidesk: Burn 78,000 Calories a Year

The Varidesk is a sit / stand desk. It’s an effective, easy-to-use height adjustable desk for both home and the office. The special desk allows you to work from either a standing or a sitting position, and makes it easy for you to switch positions as often as you like. It’s an adjustable platform that sits on top of your existing desk. When you feel the need to stand, simply raise the Varidesk up using the convenient handles on either side. Simply reverse the process to return to a seated position. You can also download the Varidesk app, which will remind you hourly to stand up.

Perhaps the most beneficial thing about stand up desks is how they can fight disease and promote good health. Research shows that staying in your chair for 10 or more hours a week can be directly linked to weight gain, back issues and circulatory problems in the long run. In contrast, standing seems to reverse many of these illnesses. Standing improves your breathing by allowing the chest to be fully open, giving full facility to the diaphragm, maximising the available capacity for air intake into your lungs and so delivering more oxygen to your body which in turn improves your concentration.

Instead of crouching over the computer screen, move naturally. This allows the body to burn calories and engages your muscles, the extra movement allows the blood to circulate throughout the body. Standing is an effective approach to tackling high blood pressure. Hypertension is an excessive fall in blood pressure that occurs when a person stands up or is in an upright position.

Evie Switzer

The Varidesk starts at £275 for the single desk. The full range can be found here.