What to Look For in an Office Chair + My Favourite Choice

Sitting has been referred to as the new smoking.

Sitting decreases not only the circulatory and lymphatic flow in your body, but it seriously impacts your cognitive focus, ability and function. So, when we can be in a more upright and better supported position, everything else we do will become that much more proficient. Have you ever sat in an office chair, and felt yourself sigh with relief? Like Wow, this chair totally get’s me?!  Yeah, me neither. That was until I finally sat my booty down into a CoreChair.

In this video, I show you what to look for in an office chair to support your alignment and prevent injury, and why this chair is my personal fav. The chair that you work in day in and day out is the most important thing in your office space! Movement, exercise, properly stimulating your nervous system and your circulatory system is SO important to your hormonal health, and this chair allows you to do just that.

What to look for in an Office Chair

• It moves with you as you flow through the day and calls on you to engage your core
• Forces you to sit upright, as opposed to slumping forward
• Custom fitting to your body, so it can lower and raise to match the height of your desk
• Lumbar support – hugs your lower back
• The ability for your pelvis to move and nutate so you wont become stagnant

When I used to sit in a regular chair, my hip flexors would become grippy and tight. I would have to get down on the floor several times throughout the day to release by hip flexors and my quads (twice as much as I do now). With a tool like the CoreChair, you can crete more mobility at your desk and in your workspace.

If you’ve never seen a CoreChair before, I’ll tell you now — there is no thoracic and upper-back or shoulder support. The first few weeks I worked with this chair, it felt like a workout! We are so used to rounding forward or leaning back into our chair. I had to consciously work at firing the muscles in my erector spinae, my mid-thoracic back, my upper back and shoulders, to actually get those muscles firing, so I wasn’t just hanging out or allowing them to become lax.

Watch the video and leave a comment, I’d love to know what you think!