Don’t be a prisoner to your chair
Sitting for extended periods of time can be hazardous for your health. Simply getting out of your chair every 45 minutes and changing sitting postures every 10 minutes can go a long way. The ideal sitting posture is to sit your hips and glutes back into the chair, with shoulder blades touching the back rest and chin tucked back. However sitting in this posture for too long is not good as well. With any posture you load tissues and sitting in one static posture may overload those tissues which may lead to pain or stiffness. Change posture by changing the angulation of your chair, position of your feet, or simply get up. This will break the loading cycle to those tissue. You should listen to your mom when she tells you to sit up but you don’t have to sit still for too long.