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Comfy office chair
CelestialBadger
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Office chairs seem to come in two types; cheap & shitty, or $1,000 ergonomic torture devices. Can anyone recommend a plain, comfy office chair? Nothing fancy, nothing stylish. Just a comfortable seat (padded not mesh) and an adjustable back. Doesn't have to be cheap but preferably not $TEXAS.
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I work from home and I play a lot of PC games. So, a lot.
All the high end chairs look like that. But I find ergonomic chairs very uncomfortable. I want a comfortable chair with a cushy seat. No mesh.
personally, i swear by Herman Miller Aeron chairs - you can get them used for $2-300 and they're built with replaceable parts, so they'll last a long time (i.e. a broken wheel does not mean you get rid of the chair)
Embody chair is the tits for long work days.
After trying the Leap I (and many others) had pain in my ass and lower back after sitting in it for an extended period of time, its a good chair no doubt but be aware of that in the event you need to return it.
Proper office chairs are incredibly comfortable in general. Ergonomic is incompatible with "torture device". I cannot imagine life without my Aeron's now (bought one for home too). They keep my back in the right spot, they're comfortable and the venting means my back doesn't sweat. Life is good.
If you don't want/like venting, there are plenty of non venting chairs. The real torture devices are when you have look-alikes to the real thing that don't incorporate high quality materials and design. For example, the Aeron can adjust 7 different ways (up/down, tilt, seatpan forward/back, resistance of tilt, armrests, and some other stuff I don't use) so you can get to the right spot. There are also 3 different sizes for different body sizes.
I wouldn't say "Incredibly comfortable" out of the box, because they force you into correct posture and if you have shit posture to begin with it might hurt for a bit.
True, but better to have some initial issue than a lifetime of back problems.
You just need to clarify because I've had people sit in my chair and go "Oh jesus this thing is horrid, my Serta is so much more comfortable" and then when I see them working in a chair they're slouching forward and not against the backrest.
So if someone were to read that and think they'd be uber comfortable out of the box and sit in it and it isn't they might think its defective or "not worth" without realizing that it is actually their posture and not the chair.
But I agree, back issue suck.
And sitting for 6-12 hours a day isn't good for your health either, conventional wisdom would tell you to go with a sit/stand desk and rotate from sitting to standing ever X# of minutes/per hour.
At the end of the day its your health and well being and you decide what's best for you, the rest of us can only chime in on what we've used or think is good and hope you make an educated decision based on it.
I think this is basically crank medicine. Sitting 12 hours a day is bad for you because you aren't moving. Getting a standing desk to "fool the body" into thinking you are not sedentary isn't going to help. Are supermarket checkout workers who work for 12 hours at a "standing desk" models of health? No, they are martyrs to bad feet, bad backs, and varicose veins. Standing still is just as bad as sitting still.
My new chair arrived and is very comfy, with a nice seat and an adjustable back (lots of adjustments in fact). Perfect.
Right, because standing is necessary but not sufficient ( see e.g. http://ergo.human.cornell.edu/CUESitStand.html)
if you have a non-ergo generic chair and it's comfy, it's because something is wrong with your posture.
Same thing with the exercise ball - the point is that it is supposed to be murder until your core is strengthened.
My new chair is extremely comfortable. It's sorta ergonomic as in it has lots of adjustments. Back adjustment is the most important one to me. It's not crazy ergonomic as in a $1000 thing that looks like a cross between a jet engine and an iron maiden, but whatevs. Exercise balls just remind me of all those other funny crank things that people have sold over the centuries as "good for you" but are really, long term, bad for you. Time will tell, I guess, and maybe when I am 60 I will be like "If only I had listened to Penny Arcade Forums and bought an exercise ball to sit on!"
What chair did you get, by the way?
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Hey, thanks! I got a pretty standard Staples thing.
I think this thread has run its course and is only circling the drain from here on out.