The  Insider Picks  team writes about stuff we think you'll like. Business Insider has affiliate partnerships so we may get a share of the revenue from your purchase. Spending long hours in front of a computer can leave you fatigued, your back hurting, and your body sweating, if you are sitting in the wrong chair. Do yourself a favor and check out these five durable and comfortable options and choose one of our best desk chair picks to replace whatever is currently at your desk. Best for your budget This AmazonBasics office chair compared favorably to many more expensive, ergonomic chairs in Top Ten Best Pro's testing. It has an easy seat height adjustment and simple modern style, along with a comfortable padded seat and mesh back for breathability. This chair has a maximum weight capacity of 225 pounds and rolls on double wheel casters for smoothness and durability; it also allows easy tilting for that long stretch, but keeps you firmly upright and comfortable, if that's what you prefer.

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The chair rolls smoothly on heavy-duty caster wheels that won't mar wood floors, and it swivels and tilts as well. It supports up to 450 pounds comfortably. Pros: Extremely comfortable and supports backs well, well-made and durable, natural ventilation means less sweatingoffice chair mat laminate Cons: Arms are too high for some desks, bands have a strong odor at firstbaby bouncer chair amazon Eurø Style Flat Bungie Mid Back, $180.99, available at Wayfair.bean bag chairs vinyl Best for gamers and long days at the officeikea high chair youtube Originally designed for the long-term commitment of gamers, Gamer Pros touts the DXRacer Formula Series chairs as perfect for gamers or professionals, because they are ultra-comfortable. sofa chair sale philippines

Advertised as bucket seat office chairs/gaming chairs/ergonomic computer chairs, they fit all of those bills nicely. These chairs feature high backs, adjustable armrests and even lumbar pillows to soothe your head and neck after long periods in the chair. There is a 360-degree swivel and its rolls smoothly on dual caster wheels. Plus, you can't beat its coolness factor. Pros: High back and support for neck and head, lifetime frame warranty, lumbar cushions Cons: Not as comfortable for large or tall people, seat is shorter than other chairs reviewed DXRacer Formula Series, $349, available at Amazon. Best for eco-friendliness and a unique design Herman Miller calls this its "life unframed" chair. Sophisticated and totally modern, with good ergonomics that promise comfort and seated freedom, it is pricey, but CNN Money calls it savvy spending. It incorporates open meshing on the back for breathability and great back support, and a padded seat for comfort, even while sitting all day.

An eco-friendly option, it uses fewer materials and packaging is half the size of standard office chair cartons. The SAYL rolls smoothly on its casters and will stand up to years of almost constant use. It's available in a range of colors. strongComfortable seating positions and adjustability, ideal for people who sit all day, sleek, modern look strongWebbing sometimes grabs buttons, can be squeaky after some time, no adjustable armrests, pricey SAYL Chair by Herman Miller, $499, available at Amazon. If money is no object, the Steelcase Leap Chair is an option for your short list. This chair is one of the best-selling chairs in the US, for a number of reasons: It is comfortable for long stretches, with ample support in both the seat and back. It even includes what Steelcase calls LiveBack, which shapes to your spine and supports your movements; according to a Tech Report review, it is comfortable and corrects your posture. Arms and height are adjustable for the right fit and it rolls and pivots smoothly.

This is a durable chair, and it has been weight-tested to 300 pounds without loss of performance. Pros: High quality and supportive, easy to clean and easy to use, sturdy and easily adjustable Cons: Non-breathable fabric, very pricey Steelcase Leap Chair, $700, available at Amazon. This article was originally published on 6/27/2016.If you're reading this article sitting down—the position we all hold more than any other, for an average of 8.9 hours a day—stop and take stock of how your body feels. Is there an ache in your lower back? A light numbness in your rear and lower thigh? Are you feeling a little down? These symptoms are all normal, and they're not good. They may well be caused by doing precisely what you're doing—sitting. New research in the diverse fields of epidemiology, molecular biology, biomechanics, and physiology is converging toward a startling conclusion: Sitting is a public-health risk. And exercising doesn't offset it. "People need to understand that the qualitative mechanisms of sitting are completely different from walking or exercising," says University of Missouri microbiologist Marc Hamilton.

"Sitting too much is not the same as exercising too little. They do completely different things to the body." In a 2005 article in magazine, James A. Levine, an obesity specialist at the Mayo Clinic, pinpointed why, despite similar diets, some people are fat and others aren't. "We found that people with obesity have a natural predisposition to be attracted to the chair, and that's true even after obese people lose weight," he says. "What fascinates me is that humans evolved over 1.5 million years entirely on the ability to walk and move. And literally 150 years ago, 90% of human endeavor was still agricultural. In a tiny speck of time we've become chair-sentenced," Levine says. Hamilton, like many sitting researchers, doesn't own an office chair. "If you're standing around and puttering, you recruit specialized muscles designed for postural support that never tire," he says. "They're unique in that the nervous system recruits them for low-intensity activity and they're very rich in enzymes."

One enzyme, lipoprotein lipase, grabs fat and cholesterol from the blood, burning the fat into energy while shifting the cholesterol from LDL (the bad kind) to HDL (the healthy kind). When you sit, the muscles are relaxed, and enzyme activity drops by 90% to 95%, leaving fat to camp out in the bloodstream. Within a couple hours of sitting, healthy cholesterol plummets by 20%. The data back him up. Older people who move around have half the mortality rate of their peers. Frequent TV and Web surfers (sitters) have higher rates of hypertension, obesity, high blood triglycerides, low HDL cholesterol, and high blood sugar, regardless of weight. Lean people, on average, stand for two hours longer than their counterparts. The chair you're sitting in now is likely contributing to the problem. "Short of sitting on a spike, you can't do much worse than a standard office chair," says Galen Cranz, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley. She explains that the spine wasn't meant to stay for long periods in a seated position.

Generally speaking, the slight S shape of the spine serves us well. "If you think about a heavy weight on a C or S, which is going to collapse more easily? The C," she says. But when you sit, the lower lumbar curve collapses, turning the spine's natural S-shape into a C, hampering the abdominal and back musculature that support the body. The body is left to slouch, and the lateral and oblique muscles grow weak and unable to support it. This, in turn, causes problems with other parts of the body. "When you're standing, you're bearing weight through the hips, knees, and ankles," says Dr. Andrew C, Hecht, co-chief of spinal surgery at Mount Sinai Medical Center. "When you're sitting, you're bearing all that weight through the pelvis and spine, and it puts the highest pressure on your back discs. Looking at MRIs, even sitting with perfect posture causes serious pressure on your back." Much of the perception about what makes for healthy and comfortable sitting has come from the chair industry, which in the 1960s and '70s started to address widespread complaints of back pain from workers.

A chief cause of the problem, companies publicized, was a lack of lumbar support. But lumbar support doesn't actually help your spine. "You cannot design your way around this problem," says Cranz. "But the idea of lumbar support has become so embedded in people's conception of comfort, not their actual experience on chairs. We are, in a sense, locked into it." In the past three decades the U.S. swivel chair has tripled into a more than $3 billion market served by more than 100 companies. Unsurprisingly, America's best-selling chair has made a fetish of lumbar support. The basic Aeron, by Herman Miller, costs around $700, and many office workers swear by them. There are also researchers who doubt them. "The Aeron is far too low," says Dr. A.C. Mandal, a Danish doctor who was among the first to raise flags about sitting 50 years ago. "I visited Herman Miller a few years ago, and they did understand. It should have much more height adjustment, and you should be able to move more. But as long as they sell enormous numbers, they don't want to change it."

Don Chadwick, the co-designer of the Aeron, says he wasn't hired to design the ideal product for an eight-hour-workday; he was hired to update Herman Miller's previous best-seller. "We were given a brief and basically told to design the next-generation office chair," he says. The best sitting alternative is perching—a half-standing position at barstool height that keeps weight on the legs and leaves the S-curve intact. Chair alternatives include the Swopper, a hybrid stool seat and the funky, high HAG Capisco chair. Standing desks and chaise longues are good options. Ball chairs, which bounce your spine into a C-shape, are not. The biggest obstacle to healthy sitting may be ourselves. Says Jackie Maze, the vice-president for marketing at Keilhauer: "Most customers still want chairs that look like chairs." Recently Levine talked to Best Buy (BBY), Wal-Mart (WMT), and Salo accounting about letting him design their offices and keep people walking and working as much as possible.