Working Remotely - 2

 In my previous post I mentioned timers, something I personally have found useful is the pomodoro timer.  You don't need to buy a (not so) fancy tomato timer, just something that you can use as a 25 minute timer.  This fits well with flow and getting up twice an hour.

Have a routine

I start my day off with my morning rituals (brushing teeth, grooming, shower, coffee, etc), then I do my morning interval run, and some stretching/calisthenics before I settle in for work.  I take my lunch at the same time, and have a schedule for meetings.  Try to have a structure to your day, this makes following your get out of the chair timer a little easier as well.

Have a good great chair.

This one is critical if you have a screen time job.  If you're going to be spending 8 hours of your day sitting in a chair, it makes sense to have a great chair.  IMO this is highly personal and anything I recommend is really not going to help you.  Personally I've looked at and tried the Aeron chairs and I'm not a fan, though a lot of people seem to be.  You need to go to an office or furniture store and sit in them before you pick one.  This will take time, but it is well worth it to have a chair that you are comfortable in.

Try a convertible standing desk

Anything that keeps you from sitting for long periods is good, but I've seen research that standing on one position for long periods isn't much better, which is why I said convertible.  It doesn't have to be the whole desk, if you've already got your office furniture there are converters that will raise your monitors and keyboard/mouse just as effectively as the moving desks will, and may be more convenient.  I'm not personally a big fan as the experience I've had with the full desks has been negative (they seem to break easily), but if either solution helps you go for it.  Personally getting up every 30 minutes and walking around does better for me.

I think I'm going to wrap up there, as anything else I can think of seems to be highly situational and won't necessarily apply to a majority of people,  if I think of more later I'll do additional posts to cover them.