For years, the Uplift V2 Standing Desk has been our pick for the best standing desk for most people. It accommodates a wide range of heights, and it&#;s stable even at its tallest setting. And it has a greater variety of attractive customization options than you&#;ll find on any competitor.
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Want a productivity and energy boost? Push a button to raise the desk so you can move a little while working. Feel like leaning back in your chair for some deep focus time? Push another button to lower the desk.
An electric, height-adjustable standing desk provides the best of both worlds.
No matter how great your office chair is, you&#;re not doing your body any favors by sitting in it for the whole day. But being on your feet constantly isn&#;t good for your comfort or health, either.
This desk works well for small spaces, and it has a height-adjustment range that&#;s ideal for people between 5-foot-8 and 6-foot-5. But the controls aren&#;t intuitive and have limited preset options.
The laminate-desktop version is made mostly from recycled wood, and it&#;s available in seven finishes. It has the same frame options as the other Jarvis desks.
This attractive desk is pleasant to work on, and it has a lower base price than many competitors. It&#;s available in small sizes, and it accommodates people under 5-foot-4 better than the Uplift V2. But it&#;s not as customizable.
This is the most customizable desk we&#;ve ever tested, and it works for a wide range of heights (people between 5-foot-4 and 7 feet).
We favored desks with 30-day refunds (at least), free return shipping, and assembly that&#;s no more challenging than for IKEA furniture.
Your workspace is highly personal, and that includes your desk. So we looked for models that offered lots of customization options.
Since good desks are a big investment, we think they should come with excellent, fast customer service and at least a five-year warranty.
We selected desks with frames that fit people under 5-foot-4 (the average height of US women), as well as those suited to taller people.
Of the desks we&#;ve tested, the Uplift V2 Standing Desk offers the best mix of performance and features. It responds quickly to control-pad input (from your choice of five keypad designs), and it produces minimal wobble, even at tall heights.
It accommodates average seated and standing heights for men and women. But if you&#;re under 5-foot-4, this desk likely won&#;t work for you if you don&#;t use a footrest. In that case, we recommend the Fully Jarvis Bamboo Standing Desk or the Fully Jarvis Laminate Standing Desk with the three-stage low-range frame.
We found the Uplift V2&#;s walnut laminate to be attractive and realistic, and panelists loved the look of the 1-inch curved bamboo desktop, as well. If you&#;d prefer a different style, Uplift has more than 30 desktop options, including several unusual but expensive wood tops, such as acacia and pheasantwood.
You can also choose from four frame colors, five grommet colors, and three keypad colors, as well as multiple add-on accessories.
The Fully Jarvis Bamboo Standing Desk and the Fully Jarvis Laminate Standing Desk have the same frame, with different top options to suit various preferences. These models offer everything we look for in a good adjustable-height standing desk: a wide range of heights to accommodate most people, a long warranty, and stability in line with that of most other desks we tested.
The Jarvis was our top pick for more than four years, and it&#;s still a great desk&#;one that&#;s become even better with frame improvements that have reduced wobbling at all heights.
This desk doesn&#;t have as many customization options as the Uplift V2. But when it&#;s equipped with its three-stage low-range frame, it works for people as short as 4-foot-9.
The laminate tops we tested look great but are prone to smudging, so if you can spend a bit more, we recommend the bamboo top.
We like that the Branch Duo Standing Desk comes with a compact, 36-by-24-inch desktop that works well for small spaces, like a home office or studio apartment.
Surprisingly for a small desk, it has a two-tier lifting column that&#;s ideal for people between 5-foot-8 and 6-foot-5. Most other two-tier lifting columns we&#;ve found accommodate narrower height ranges, such as between 5-foot-8 and 6 feet. While the Duo&#;s height adjustment range of 28 to 47.5 inches works best for taller people, even our 5-foot-tall panelists and a panelist in an electric wheelchair said they could adjust it to their liking. (It&#;s best to find your height preferences and consider your ergonomic setup before selecting a good standing desk.)
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But the Branch Duo has only five laminate finishes, and it doesn&#;t offer nearly as many customizable features as our Uplift and Fully picks. The control paddle can also be clunky to use, and it can&#;t accommodate more than two presets, which may be an issue in multi-user households or offices.
You can't take the desk out of your desk job, but &#; with a standing desk &#; you can take the chair out of it. And, if the rising popularity of these desks is any indication, perhaps it's because there's reason to believe it improves our health as much as our productivity.
Still, you may be unsure whether a standing desk is really worth it. Of course you're tired of sitting all day, but is a different desk really the right solution?
First, there's the question of whether a standing desk is worth the price tag? This decision is a bit personal. But, keep in mind: A standing desk doesn't have to be a several hundred dollar investment. There are a variety of standing desk converters (which sit on top of the desk you already have) that won't break the bank.
Price tag aside, you might still be on the fence (or, more realistically, in your chair) about the actual health benefits of a standing desk. Do they exist, or is it simply wishful thinking?
You probably already know this, but, when you're sitting all day, it's prretttttyy easy to slouch, lean and just generally slide your way into some unfriendly postures &#; including, but not limited to, hunched shoulders, a neck that's stretched out forwards and idle abdominal muscles.
When sitting, your spine is generally in a less effective position, and this places more demand on your back muscles and neck muscles. As a result, your abdominal muscles need to be very engaged to help absorb the extra stress. But, many people neglect the full use of their core while sitting. What's more is that sitting also reduces your blood circulation in your legs, which puts strain on your hamstring and quadricep muscles.
By the end of the work week, there's back pain, neck pain and maybe even some leg pain.
The benefit of standing instead of sitting is that it makes it much easier to keep your spine in normal alignment, meaning your muscles don't have to work as hard. For instance, standing more naturally engages your abdominal muscles, resulting in a properly aligned spine and optimal use of your back and neck muscles.
But, a word of caution: You can have bad spine alignment while standing, too &#; whether that's because you're not establishing correct standing posture, you're not engaging your muscles properly or you're making one or more common work desk mistakes.
In a perfect world, standing at your desk most of the day instead of sitting would result in some extra calorie burn.
The reality, however, is that standing burns only slightly more calories per hour than sitting &#; about 88 calories per hour vs. 80 calories per hour, one study shows. This small increase isn't likely to contribute to any weight loss or weight maintenance goals you may have.
What this study found instead is that replacing periods of sitting with walking caused more energy expenditure &#; about 130 more burned calories, in fact. (Wait a minute...should we be investing in treadmill desks instead of standing desks??) The exact calories burned per hour while walking varies depending on your weight and your pace, but walking can generally aid in weight loss for some people &#; especially when combined with efforts to eat healthy diet.
But even though standing doesn't really burn more calories than sitting, know that sitting too much can, over time, impact your health &#; even if you're getting plenty of exercise.
A sedentary lifestyle (aka, sitting too much) increases a person's risk of developing type 2 diabetes by more than 90%. One theory as to why is that sitting makes it harder for your body to absorb sugar in your bloodstream, resulting in increased blood sugar levels. Over time, blood sugar spikes can contribute to insulin resistance (aka, type 2 diabetes).
Admittedly, the evidence isn't overwhelming, but one study found that alternating sitting and standing throughout an eight-hour workday has modest but beneficial effects on how blood sugar is regulated after a meal. This suggests that investing in a standing desk (and actually standing at it) may potentially help reduce your risk of developing diabetes.
Plus, sitting too much isn't just a risk factor for type 2 diabetes. It's linked to a variety of health issues.
The last reason a standing desk might benefit your health? Well, because the alternative can actually be bad for it. Research shows that sitting more than eight hours a day can have a serious impact on a person's health.
In fact, prolonged sitting is a risk factor for a variety of chronic health conditions, including:
And if you think the only eight hours you sit are while you're at work...think again. You probably also sit during your commute, while you eat, while you watch TV and more.
So, it's important to make sure you're moving more and sitting less &#; whether this means alternating sitting and standing throughout the day at your new standing desk or taking frequent, short breaks to get up and move around.
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