How many hours a day do you spend sitting on a desk chair in front of your computer? If you?re spending more than 4 hours a day it's possible that you are constantly changing positions or even getting up more frequently as time progresses. Most home computer users very rarely purchase a chair that is more than $75 to $100 but even more shocking the average is actually $50 to $70 and of course there are those who even use a table chair.

If you?re like me you probably don't think of a computer chair as something that should provide comfort, you consider it a necessary piece of furniture that allows you to interface with your system. Recently, I discovered that I was wrong and needed to rethink my conclusions. Due to a recent injury I found that I was spending more time testing, benchmarking and typing than I normally do (usually 6 to 7 hours a day) I was spending up to 10 hours a day in my computer chair. When I began to keep track of movement and repositioning as well as getting up and walking away I was in shock, within the first hour I may have moved or repositioned myself 2 to three times and actually got up from the chair once. As time progressed that multiplied by 10 and within four and a half hours I was moving or repositioning myself at least 4 times every 5 minutes and getting up to stretch at least 3 additional times with longer duration before I sat down again.