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Originally Posted by Azure
Except it isn't. Doing all those things will certainly help, but it doesn't compare to being active and constantly moving around throughout the day.
I have such a job, and I wouldn't trade it for the world. You just feel so much better at the end of the day compared to sitting at a desk.
And overwhelming amount of people who have desk jobs have back problems. Maybe they still are functional, but to a large degree they don't have a good quality of life physically. Nevermind that many are overweight and get very little exercise.
You can keep from being overweight from eating right, but you can't fix the back problems that arise from sitting all day.
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What is your job if you don't mind me asking?
Getting an hour and a half on a bike 3-5 days a week gives me a better feeling than 60 hours on a cut block. Treeplanting involved walking/climbing 17-20 km every day with 30-50 lbs of trees, bending over and putting trees in every 7 feet with your hands and scraping the ground away. Log peeling was about 6 hours a day and I was spent. My hands wouldn't be able to fully open the next morning. There are/were only a couple of hundred planters in their forties, only ever saw one over fifty out of about 10,000 that do it every year. Most older planters become truck driving foreman or checkers that just do a lot of walking.
I was involved in competitive skiing at the time. I would always test lower in speed, strength and flexibility after two months of tree planting. Endurance was about the same. Definitely had the signs of over training but I needed to make enough coin or I wouldn't be competing the next year.
I've seen a couple of people with back problems use adjustable desks so that they can stand for some or all of the day. I don't actually know a lot of co-workers with back problems at the office though.