Exercise while Working: Can We Make Standing Even Better?

Enter The Wurf Board

The key to minimizing the negatives of prolonged sitting at work while maximizing the benefits of standing during work centers on engaging in regular "movement" while standing in place rather than exercise while working.

How can one move more while standing still? The crucial issue is how one moves when standing in place. The body’s lymph system is a toxin removal system that needs movement to work. In addition, blood flow to the muscles can be inhibited by static standing or sitting. But, even very small or micro movements can provide sufficient biological "movement" to allow these key body functions to operate. Flexing muscles during even small, tiny movements provide the pumping action for the blood to flow and the lymph system to work. The result is less fatigue and less posture related pains and more energy; even during the dreaded post lunch slump.

The Wurf Board is unique as a standing anti-fatigue mat because it encourages constant micro movements by the standing user; virtually exercising while working. So, while a person is standing "still" in one place while working at a standing desk, they are not biologically still in terms of blood flow and lymph function. The results are startling.

Where one may stand comfortably for one hour on a typical compressive anti-fatigue mat, that same individual can stand for many hours on a Wurf board.

The reason is that a user continues to make micro movements on the Wurf Board while also standing relatively still and focused on their work. These often unconscious movements’ keeps blood flow and lymph function going without the distraction of active exercise. This result falls right in line with Katy Bowman’s theory of constant movement offsetting the problem of repetitive positioning. With the Wurf Board, one is never "still in the same way" as Katy would say.