A casual reminder to relax your jaw, stop hunching your shoulders, and sit up straight
Photo: Jack Mitchell/Getty Images The average American adult spends 6.5 hours a day sitting — and that’s when we’re not socially isolating and tasked with staying inside as much as humanly possible. These days, many of us who are now working from home are not only sitting more, we’re also no longer sitting correctly without office luxuries like ergonomically designed chairs and adjustable laptop stands.
Logitech Digital Office Portable Bundle $65 $90 now 28% off $65 Herrera advised his faculty and staff to get a Bluetooth-connected keyboard and mouse, so the screen and keyboard heights can be separated, for optimal positioning for vision and typing . He also suggests using a headset or earbuds instead of holding a phone up to your ear for calls.
$79 at Purple Buy Easy Posture Lumbar Back Support Mesh $15 now 7% off $14 Or, try this nifty Strategist hack: a mesh contraption that turns any chair into an Aeron-esque experience . $33 at Amazon Buy $33 at Amazon Buy Wearables Posture clothing is a niche but growing category that bridges medical and physically therapeutic design with fashion — and while it usually looks like the former, newer brands like IntelliSkin, IFGfit, and Kinflyte are a touch more style-forward. “Wearables serve the purpose of a reminder,” Herrera explains.
$178 at IFGfit Buy Kinflyte Freedom Bra $119 $119 Photo: Ja Hwa Lee Similarly, Kinflyte’s bras have cushioned compression panels and wide shoulder straps to “gently push the shoulders back, open the chest, encapsulate the bust, and support the back,” Lee says. The tech veteran worked with a performance wear designer from the North Face to prototype Kinflyte’s designs at an ex-Nike exec’s Portland, Oregon, innovation lab.
$95 at Alignmed Buy IFGfit Men’s Align Ergonomic Posture Shorts $118 $118 Bike shorts are a more versatile option, because you can conceal them under many outfits . Liu says he sells a lot of IFGfit’s posture shorts to executives who wear them under their work clothes, noting that they’re also popular among pro athletes who require hip mobility.
$75 at Amazon Buy $75 at Amazon Buy At-Home Strenthening While an ergonomic workstation and wearables matter, Herrera underscores the importance of working out to strengthen “specific muscle groups that really help maintain posture, specifically, the upper- and mid-back, shoulders, rhomboids, and rotator cuffs, with upright or bent-over rows,” followed by core work.
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