Welcome back to the healthy workstation. So far in this course we've examined basic principles of ergonomics, health, posture, and sitting or seated workstations. Now we're going to turn our attention to standing and the standing workstation. These are becoming ever more popular and for good reason. First of all, the standing condition tends to expose our bodies to less mechanical stress overall throughout the workday, then sitting next, being in the standing position also allows us to very easily incorporate more movement and health giving activity into our day. As I mentioned previously, I utilize a stand up desk for about three fourths of my workday, and I find this to be incredibly effective.

In this section, we're going to examine a number have options for standup desks, and also four key areas that you can enhance to make yours even more ideal. First of all we'll look at setup and how to align and organize things optimally. Next, we'll look at considerations for surface and how that can be manipulated. We'll examine movement more closely so that you can find ways to get that movement into your day easily. And then finally, we'll look at location or position of your workstation within your workplace. These are the things we're going to do and I think you'll find this to be incredibly valuable.

Let's examine the setup of an ideal standing workstation. We are here at one of my workstations which I use every day and this happens to be a stand up desk from which I record my podcast as well as conduct a number of electronic or video meetings. This is a very comfortable workstation for me and I'm going to explain why in Because when we set up a standing workstation, the primary thing that we want to preserve is the posture that we've reviewed previously, as we discussed, we want the body to be near a midpoint in the three planes that we've, we've gone over and so you know, if a plumb line is coming down from the ceiling, I want to see my body symmetric replaced on either side of that plumb line. Also, I don't want to be rotated, or twisted for any length of time. And finally, when viewed from the side, good posture and comfortable all day posture is really a plumb line, going through the ear, shoulder, elbow, hip, knee, and ankle or approximately.

So this gives us a great position around which we can oscillate and be very fatigue resistant throughout the day. So that's what this workstation does for me. And I'm going to turn I don't want to turn my back to you but I want to show you some of the things that this workstation Has First of all, it has two monitors and one larger one smaller. My my eyes will strike if I stand up nice and tall, appropriately in terms of that cone of vision we've discussed before in the sitting workstation. And that's very comfortable for me, I don't have to move around very much to see the screen. And if I'm using the screen over there, I can move my keyboard and mouse over.

And speaking of those, I, again, when I'm squared up here, I don't have to reach at all mouse is on a pad, it's very easy to use. I do use the the wrist rests on the heel of the hand for my typing and keyboarding. And it's very comfortable for me to be here working often on throughout a day. And maybe I'll just turn this way so I don't obscure your view of that apologize to that microphone boom tends to take up much of the picture. But that's a great workstation for me and this is actually a custom piece of furniture that I built but there's Many commercial options available or you can be very creative, even with boxes of different sizes. So shoe boxes are very helpful in establishing these relationships if you don't have multiple heights.

Now, here's another option that is popular and it's readily available and very inexpensive. This is just a simple angled notebook or laptop stand. And this happens to be a woodworking version, but again, their numbers of materials that these are made from. This is decent, it may not be perfect, but it's close so my line of sight from eyes is close to where I want