hi guys hope you're well a and greetings from New Jersey more about that later
why I'm here but today we're going to finish our three-part series on making
Owens office chair pimping the chair the chairs finished we actually delivered
the chair and I'm gonna walk you through it if you hadn't seen part one and two
of the series of making this year I recommend you do so I was pretty fun
pretty cool but the chairs delivered and so let's get right to it what I did was
with the mechanism and all the things we did here
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stretches in four dimensions it's four dimensional you look you look crazy
that's cream there's a pull right so I have it and the base and this is where
different this is yeah this is we do this is kind of based on art I found it
art the foundation we make that okay so the same kind of thing using a closed
cell foam on the bottom to give it that density and then we use the gel memory
foam in the middle and then a message on top so we get it just feels really good
and it kind of increases the surface area
Christmas okay so you go through the chairs are just a couple pretty cool
isn't it look at that okay so I mean I'm gonna go through all
the different things here so what we have here in terms of the mechanism we
had to really pimp the mechanism and what I wanted the key thing with the key thing with your back and a lot of people
in their back Susan we turn around here you see here the transitional area here from run with your lower the lower
thoracic stew t10 through t12 it's a world hotspot and so if we can get that
right with your Pelt lower abdominal muscles and pelvic floor muscles and get
those to engage set this angle right you're gonna be so comfortable so so
what we did we know in your weight we set that we set the mechanism so when
you're sitting on this it's just just a slight bit of give there yeah three for
your weight we also set the spindle at the same thing on that pretty cool isn't it right okay now yeah now the thing is
this won't kill ya engaged right so you're actually actually actively
sitting you're engaging your core muscles as a public floor muscles lower
I have muscles okay and and and there's just a nice another give here now I just wanna set the rocker here for you yeah
okay this is no you stay right there okay and we can set the tension here
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how's that yeah nice and it's such a nice feeling in there yeah yeah so if
it's okay with you are you happy with this chair very yeah okay
if it's okay with you we'd like to report back in some period of time just give us a heads up ya know how this is
working out yeah yeah get your armrest yeah press these things can translate
these are 4d armrests so they go up and down okay they can go in and so I
suggest that these go in slightly like that for you keep him on that angle here
like this and then we sew the and they trans
in there but these are actually set for you it for your whip okay the I wouldn't really touch any of the other mechanisms
because there is already preset for you because I feel yeah that's good right so
while we up here like that and see how that comes up like right there yeah and so so so what we have is we have
movement if we look in the X and y-axis there's a bit of in the x-axis room and
it there there's the whole idea the whole philosophy behind building this
chair was that put the stress or the load in the y-axis and the x-axis on the
mechanism we're on the chair and away from your back we wanted to set the the
right angle we have the perfect angle for you we want to set that so it
engages the core muscles but then we want as you're moving we want the chair
to move with you okay and so that they'll load all the stress goes on to
the chair and off of your back and lastly we wanted the chair up to look
cool because a tenth of the day this is it's a piece of artwork
yeah it's kinda like pokey we like when you're cooking you wanna use the best
ingredients and I kind of whatever it is hop on this but I put the best
ingredients I could possibly get to build this thing so the purpose of this
video was to take Owens chair and pimp it if you will we didn't want to make a
brand new chair I have a design I've been working on for almost oh gosh
almost two decades and that's to come out in about eight weeks but that's not
what this video was about this video was taking an ordinary office cheap office
chair and improving upon that my struggle was that we couldn't do that we
it just it just it was just really not too much to work with other than the
seat pan itself so we took the seat pal and I'm gonna walk you through the steps
of what we did to make this chair but we went over budget but we have I think a
fantastic chair and I would put this chair up against any chair out there in
the market today so we started with the seat pan and what we did was we we took
the seat pan and we developed a mold for that we used three different types of foam why what I did was I used a closed
cell foam at the bottom a I fused a memory and gel foam in the in-between
layer and then the top layer was a gel foam the the fabric was a three
dimensional stretch and so would what we have there is almost the perfect seat
now the back we had the mold out to Owens back and we wanted the apex at l3
now if you remember at this surface electromyography
scan we did we found that the the hot spot a trouble spot was in the mid
thoracic talking about the mid part of your back
going into the lumbar spine and that is really a hot spot for most people who sit for a living and I don't think
there's really much thought about this it the new chair that I'm designing is
coming out in about eight weeks that's all I thought about and so what we
wanted is we want to take all the stress off of that we want to quantify that
that's why we use electromyography because we could actually objectify this
and we didn't have to go on how we felt and we wanted to get that area free and clear of any nerve stress we wanted to
send the the stress into the lower abdominal muscles and the pelvic floor
muscles so when you're sitting you're actually engaging your core muscles and you're actually sitting by McCann lastly
to finish this chair off we wanted it not to look like an orthopedic chair
there's so many offices I go into and you could say oh here's the here's the
kind of freak he has this weird chair with this head thing sticking out and
all I didn't want that I wanted this chair to look cool and so we used a lot
of aluminum or aluminium brush brush steel and the casters you could see we
went into a skateboard shop and I use actually skateboard casters which I
think it really finishes it off it makes it look really cool and it also has a
nice gliding feel and it keeps the chair moving really well and the key thing is
movement it you really have to the sitting is important to get that right
but the key thing sitting in everybody out there is you want to keep moving and
I feel that this chair will keep him moving
I really hope you enjoyed this video I really had a great time making it I had
a lot of fun Owen was a great model for this he was he was really good he gave
us lots of great feedback I were oh and I really appreciate your time and and
putting up with us it this took a little longer than I expected but I think you
have a great chair and I will check back with Owen in the future hey if you like
these kind of videos please really help us out give us a thumbs up please
comment and and also hit the bell now the reason why I'm here in New Jersey if
you if you're paying attention to my books New Jersey if you if you read my
books of you pay attention what we're doing on our channel we talked about two
things you're get your seating right get your sleep and right and we spend I
think if you get 70% of that right you're going to avoid
so much pain so much chronic disease and I'm gonna be speaking with a fella a
doctor later on today and I think he can speak he can articulate this much better
than I can this guy speaks all over the world he's written books on this subject but he really connects the dots between
poor posture and bad health and he gives some really good advice on this so this
video will become this new video with this doctor dr. Jay Zimmerman will be
coming out next Wednesday so please stay tuned and I will see you next week
yo from New Jersey take care bye-bye