Pro tip: I swapped my desk chair for a yoga ball and my back pain vanished in 3 weeks

I spent 2 years in a cheap mesh chair from Office Depot and my lower back was killing me every day by 3pm. A coworker said to try a 65cm yoga ball instead, so I grabbed one for $25 on Amazon. Within the first week I could feel my core working just to stay upright, and after about 3 weeks the daily ache was basically gone. Has anyone else made this switch and noticed a real difference in how you sit all day?

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casey68218d ago

Did you try sitting on a stack of old phone books first?

felix_black18d ago

Used to hate them. @casey682 this totally changed my mind though.

reesel5018d ago

Wait, wait... "Phone books"?? Like the big yellow ones? I'm sorry, that just broke my brain for a second. People actually sat on those to reach the pedals? That's wild, I've never heard of that before. My grandfather just used a stack of old encyclopedias but I guess phone books were thinner or something? Either way, I'm kinda horrified and fascinated at the same time.