Been working from home on a computer full time since the beginning of covid and this is what I've arrived at for not letting that computer time tear my body and mind down. Hope it helps people here. Hope to learn new tips I can integrate from the other comments.
Stool instead of a chair, standing desk, desk treadmill, balance board, cushion floor mat. Any one position or repetitive movement all day is bad. Constantly switch and move your body. The 3 point bridge specifically for the hunching but also any mind body connection yoga or pilates ish movement is also a great way to spend a break for a desk worker.
!!Hunching over your phone is not a break from your laptop for your mind or body!!
My highest productivity is usually on my balance board, but I limit it to 1 focus sprint a day because my day total productivity is best when I switch things around.
All of this movement should be slow and easy, it is just about not being still. Slow easy movement improves recovery between your other workouts. It would be easy to do those movements too hard or too long and start to accumulate stress that hurts your workouts. This is another reason for the constant switching, a 20 minute walk is refreshing but a 4 hour walk tears you down. I feel this more and more as I age and wish I made more varied low intensity movement a part of my life earlier.
I also leverage other biological functions to move throughout the day. I have a bathroom on the floor I'm on, but I go upstairs to use that one instead to get that little extra movement. Then I go to the other end of the house and wash my hands in the kitchen to go that little bit more movement before I return for my next focus sprint.
Not movement and stiffnss specific but sort of related. I'm also autistic so I really feel the dopamine lulls of boredom with the same mental task on the same laptop all day. All this novelty in my body is key to not burning out on the repetitive brain work. Music, no music, different music genre intentionally switched around can also drive novelty while doing the same task on the same laptop with your mind. Usually podcasts, audiobooks, and music with lyrics is too much of a distraction for the level and type of focus I need for my job but they might fit into your rotation.
HTH HAND as us old timers used to say.
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