What is Active Seating?

Active seating will encourage you to adopt an ergonomically correct position whether seated, perching or leaning, and encourage you to remain active throughout your working day. Active seating solutions should be comfortable enough to use while you work, allowing you to make continuous adjustments to your posture and position and enabling you to move more easily and more often.

A well-designed ergonomic seating set-up will help support your spine while you sit. It should also encourage you to move your hips forward, bringing positive alignment to your spine. Using a height-adjustable stool will strengthen your abs as well as other muscles, thus reducing back strain and preventing a stress build-up in your shoulders.

We only stock high-quality, best-performance, active seating options. We encourage chair users to adopt a routine of breaking up sitting time with regular standing/stretching/movement breaks at least every 30 minutes. This helps reduce your risk of the health problems that come with sedentary habits.

Benefits of Active Seating

The top four benefits of using active seating as part of your workplace set-up are as follows:

1. Reduce sitting time: The health risks linked to “prolonged sitting” are extensively researched. We are advised to avoid sitting bouts of 30 minutes or more, and regularly break up static sitting periods withstanding, a stretch, or a mini walk. Movement such as that generated through the usage of active seating solutions helps to maintain or ‘jump start’ important physiological organs and processes.
2. Keep you active: As the name suggests, active seating enables you to move more when using a sit-stand or standing desk in both raised and lowered positions, as well as when using a static desk. It helps promote movement within your muscular system even when seated, reducing stationary time. Health experts say "your next position is your best position"; by using an active seating solution you should find yourself able to shift position simply and frequently while remaining comfortable and feeling supported.
3. Engage core muscles: Active seating encourages ongoing movements in key muscle groups. It will facilitate the hips to slant slightly forward, moving your back into positive alignment and thereby reducing your risk of slouching.
4. Increase productivity: People who extensively use an active seating solution find they are more alert and motivated with better concentration. Users spend less time feeling fatigued, suffer fewer aches and pains and find it easier to maintain a positive attitude when using an ergonomic seating solution rather than a traditional office chair. The result? Increased workplace wellness and productivity.

Encourages constant moving

Health specialists agree sedentary behaviour is the trigger for a broad range of medical problems ranging from high blood pressure to obesity, musculoskeletal conditions, and type 2 diabetes. Even people who exercise regularly and hit their step count need to avoid the dangers that come with prolonged periods of inactivity i.e., sitting.

Active seating solutions such as ergonomic perch stools are designed to engage muscles and keep your body moving gently without you noticing it. Not only is ongoing motion good for your physical health, but it is also a mental health booster. Maintaining blood circulation and metabolic activity is a by-product of the gentle ongoing motion that comes when you use an active seating solution.

Improves Posture

A properly designed active seating solution will encourage you to move your hips forward, bringing positive alignment to your spine. It should strengthen your abs as well as other core muscle groups, thus reducing back strain and stress from building up in your shoulders. You are less likely to slouch when using a posture stool and will find yourself stretching sub-consciously as you work. Your shoulders will rotate back, and you will stand taller, making for improved posture.

Burns calories

Active sitting cannot replace exercise, but it will help keep your muscles working and engaged, blood flowing freely through your body and your metabolism engaged. Your calorie burn will be raised compared with static sitting and you will suffer fewer aches and pains.