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- Hi folks, I'm Bob Schrupp, Physical Therapist.
- Brad Heineck, Physical Therapist.
- Together we are the most famous
physical therapists on the internet.
- In our opinion, of course, Bob.
- Today, we're gonna
go over this device here, Brad.
Should you get a standing desk?
These are 12 things I have found
after two years of using one.
Maybe it's more than two years.
Hasn't it been quite a while?
- Well Bob, time does fly,
but 12 is a good number anyways.
- All right.
So anyway, what does that have to do
with two years?
- Well let's carry on, Bob.
- All right, Brad's also been using one
for the same period of time.
So he'll also give his input.
- I'll chime in, Bob.
- You'll chime in. - Yes.
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of a standing desk by FlexiSpot.
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- So, should you get a standing desk?
Okay, I have been using the FlexiSpot desk riser,
so that's the one that converts
like a regular table.
- You set it on top
of a normal - Set it on top
of a table, yeah.
- And it allows you
to manually go up and down.
- Desk riser, desk converter,
I don't know
what they all call it.
but I've been using it
for at least two years.
I think it's been like three years.
And this is what I've discovered about that.
By the way, that's very good quality, too.
I remember,
I don't remember exactly,
but I know they test these things
like a thousand times
or something, their quality controls.
- Right, repetitive
and see what it's gonna hold up to.
- Well, that's what brings me
to my first point, Brad,
is you don't wanna go cheap
on these things.
We got one
that had been inexpensive
and we tried it out
and we couldn't even get it up and down.
Do you remember that?
- Yeah, you pull the unlock mechanism
and it was kinda sticky
and then you could almost hurt.
- Yeah, you'll hurt your back.
- Trying to get it up,
but that wasn't everyone, was it?
- No, not everyone
but it was a cheaper one.
So, I always think that FlexiSpot
has a good value.
You know what I mean?
They're not the highest end.
There are some really high end ones
but that you pay for those.
- Sure.
- But they're in the middle
and they've got good quality products,
for home or work.
- Right.
- Especially now that we're all home.
- And if you're having back problems
or problems when you sit
and you stand up
and you can feel better about it,
it's a wonderful thing to use for.
- Well, let's go on, yeah.
We'll go example.
So number two,
a desk riser or a desk converter
like I said is good,
but the electric height adjustment is better.
My wife has this one,
a little larger desk and I'm like,
why does she get one
and I don't get one?
- Well, that's a good question Bob,
because well, she's the boss.
- Well, and you've got two of them, right?
- Well, that's a different story, Bob.
- How does that work out?
- I've got one in the house
and one in the garage
and we can talk about that.
- We'll talk about that,
but the thing I found out is
if you use the converter,
yes, it's easy to use
but if you use one of these,
you're gonna be more likely
to stand up and sit down more often.
- You have a lot more space
that you can move up and down - Yes.
I got my desk is full.
I got two monitors,
I've got paperwork
and I take it up and I take it down.
But lots of time
I find if I'm standing, I stay standing
and if I'm sitting, I stay sitting
because I just didn't wanna move it.
And I think- - Go through the effort.
- Right.
- Especially if got all your stuff up.
- I know it sounds minimal
but it's just human nature.
- Once you go to this,
you don't wanna go back.
- Right.
So the number one benefit for me.
- We're only at number one?
- No, this is number three now.
But the number one benefit I found is
that it helped decrease the knots
that you feel.
Brad, do you wanna point out
where you get knots?
- Yeah, you know,
right in that area,
upper trap area.
You know, up the neck.
I don't know
if you get headaches or not,
but that's a postural thing.
When you stand up,
you just typically have better posture
as opposed to,
especially when you get involved.
- Yeah.
- And Bob thinks about posture
all the time as we- - Yeah.
- We always talk about it on our shows.
- But you start,
yeah you get focused.
- Your work is, takes it away.
- If you wanna know
one of the most irritating things to me,
my wife comes walking by.
- Your wife is?
- No, well kind of.
She walks by
and she'll say, "Your posture looks
really bad right now."
And I'm like,
"A therapist doesn't wanna be reminded."
- My wife has done the same thing
for me and I have to admit it.
- And I did,
I had slouched, started slouching down.
So, this is gonna help,
the electric one.
Number four, decrease stress in my back.
Same thing,
after a while, I start to round out
and I normally have to go
to the hanging handles
and hang for a while
to give my back a little traction.
- Sure, sure.
- It always cracks then
after I'd been sitting in a while.
- Then you feel better.
- I feel better.
Yep.
Number five, decreased stress on my neck.
Along with I got some computer glasses, too.
- Yeah.
- That are set so you're 40 inches away.
'Cause if you have bifocals,
you're gonna go like this.
You can't get away from it.
- Yeah, 'cause yeah, it just.
- In order to see.
- I have reading glasses
that are not the right,
the cheap ones
you buy at the dollar store.
And I always find myself
and then I have to adjust.
- And I would get headaches.
I'll start getting those neck headaches.
And so this along with the glasses
took those away.
And that's the same
with the neck headaches.
Energy level, there's a lot of claims
that it'll increase your energy and stuff like that.
I do find if I'm sitting,
I'm getting a little tired
I put it up
and it wakes me up.
- Well, when you you get up, again,
it's all related to posture.
You can breathe better,
everything works better
when you stand
or you just changing positions.
- And that's an excellent one Brad, you're right.
Increase lung capacity.
If you're crunched down,
your lungs just can't work the way they should.
- Right, the diaphragm is not as free.
- Yeah, there's a lot of other benefits
I'm not gonna mention today,
but they talk about decreased blood pressure,
losing weight and all that things.
But I didn't notice any of those, myself.
What else?
Let's see,
my hip flexors less tight.
If you sit for long periods of time
these muscles start to get tight.
Also this is kind of a minor thing,
but it really isn't,
is better digestion.
If you're sitting with your stomach crunched
the whole time.
- Yep, that's just a mechanical thing.
- Yep.
- You're kinda squished together.
- Yep, and it can make your tummy upset.
My tummy got upset.
- Someone might get mad at us for that.
- My embarrassing one here,
my hemorrhoids are better with it.
I did a lot of things, though,
I think that helped my hemorrhoids.
It's no longer a problem.
- We don't have to get
into the real personal things.
Bob, save that for your wife.
- All right.
And the final thing
is your muscles get
weaker when you're just sitting.
- Sure.
- So your leg muscles get lower.
It's not the worst thing
to do a little bit of a workout.
- Yep, absolutely.
You can do a little bit of this,
a little bit of that.
We have one video we did,
we did a little dance.
- Yeah, we did a dance.
That was a long time ago.
- Add in every 30 seconds, every 30 minutes.
- So, this is what we're giving away today, Brad.
This is fantastic.
I hope I can say this correctly.
It's the Comhar Model EG8 or EW8.
- Very interesting name.
- We'll put a link below so you can find it.
So it goes from a height of 29 inches,
which this is a 29 inch, right?
- Yeah.
- We've got a tape measure.
- Yep, sure.
That's at 31.3 right now.
- All right, and then I think it says
on here too, isn't it?
- Yeah, there's a little display right here.
- And it goes up to 48 inches.
This one, I don't know if we're gonna have a discount
on it or not, but it's like 359,
about 360 bucks.
It's rated at 110 pounds,
so that's a lot of books and computers and stuff.
You can put your kid on there.
- Yep, there you go. - I wouldn't give him a ride.
And Brad, you were kinda alluded
to the fact
that these things are good
for so many things,
like if people wanna do crafts.
- Exactly right, so you can stand while you're
doing whatever craft.
If you know your kids are taller
they might wanna do it
when they're doing their crafts.
- I have one of them that might work.
- Yep, homework sure there you go.
So I think we're at about
as high as it goes right now.
There's four settings you can set it to.
- This is actually how high
I would probably need it.
- Yeah, right where you're standing.
- Yeah.
- Exactly.
And this thing has got, look at this.
Mine doesn't have this.
- This is biggest reason I wanted this
is that drawer.
I keep all my stuff on here on the desk
and I'm always losing pens I'm always.
- You know what?
If you want a bigger one than this one.
What is this one?
It's two foot by what, four foot?
Yep, two by four.
If you want bigger,
they do make bigger ones
that hold more weight, too.
I think they're 250 pounds.
- I know we used to lie on it.
- Or I'd sit on it.
- Yep, sure.
And now you, the one in your garage,
you also what do you do out there?
- Bob, I do woodworking,
I do welding on it.
- On this?
- Yes.
- Wow.
- Well, I made a wooden cover for it
so it didn't damage this.
- Sure.
- Yeah, it works great
if I'm sawing a 10 foot piece
of wood on my table saw,
I raise this up
to my table saw height
so the wood doesn't fall to the floor.
I can do it with one person safely.
- Wow.
- It is just a great thing for the handy person.
- Now it has like four preset settings.
- Yeah.
- You can set.
- Well mine has three.
This is the new one.
It's got four.
- Yeah, and it also has a lock on it.
- Yes, if you wanna lock it in.
- The site, so you don't- - It has the USB!
- Yes! - Power ports.
- Three USB charging points, ports.
- And this one is not bad at all
to put together.
- Right.
- They've come a long way.
- Yeah Brad and I,
I put my wife's together and it was,
I think it was like two hours.
- Well at least you didn't make her put it together.
- (laughs) Why does she correct
my posture all the time?
No but this one
Mike did it for us.
He said it was less than 15 minutes.
- Well, I watched him.
- Did you?
- Oh, yeah.
- Thanks for helping him out.
So it also comes in one box now
where it used to come in two boxes.
- They continue to improve their products.
- They also have,
I don't know how big a deal
this is to you, Brad,
it actually has an anti collision function,
so if it starts going down and hits something,
it'll stop and pop back up again.
- Well, that'd be good if your child is under there.
- Yeah, that's what I mean.
- Squish them.
- I used to always worry about our cats.
Because they get under those recliners.
- They're that big? - No, it would
get under the recliner.
and if you lean back,
I would have killed it.
- What's that got to do with the desk?
- I don't know, I'm just saying
it's one of those things you worry about.
- We're starting to babble Bob,
we gotta
get on with the show.
- All right, remember Brad
and I can fix just about anything.
- Yep, except for-
- A broken heart.
- Right, but this is
not gonna help- - An operating table.
- Or for writing the book.
- Yeah, for writing the book.
There we go.