0448/5-0448/9 Sidea Active Sitting Ball

0448/5-0448/9 SIDEA ACTIVE SITTING BALL

What is our body used for? The answer is easy: to move from one chair to another... Think about it; the chair is a symbol of our time because most of our activities are carried out while sitting and this is why we often talk about posture, metabolic problems and the many pains; muscular, joint, cervical, caused by sitting and loss of motor activity.

But what is the correct posture? Even easier answer: there isn't one.

There is no such thing as a correct and fixed posture that can make us sit well for hours, especially in a traditional chair. In fact, the traditional chair tends to deform the physiological curves of the spinal column, but above all, because of the way it is constructed (backrest, armrests, rigid seat surface, etc.) it leads to prolonged fixation.

Sitting for hours in the same position, even if theoretically correct, is the worst thing. Our body is made to move; the intervertebral discs, the stabilising muscles and every one of our organs do not function properly if deprived of movement. Movement involves the activation of all vital functions: cardiovascular, respiratory, nervous, muscular, etc.

Therefore, if one is forced to sit, the correct way is one that allows active and dynamic sitting, i.e. a sitting in which one can move and choose to change position, even do some small exercises, thus developing the broadest awareness of one's body.

The Active Sitting Ball is an effective solution for active and dynamic sitting.

In fact, the Gym Ball forces continuous adaptations and thus obliges the activation of the entire postural musculature, allowing, in addition, the unloading of vertebral compressions and the restoration of the physiological curves of the spinal column.

In particular, the ability to move the pelvis stimulates the natural lumbar lordosis, helping to avoid assuming the negative and diffuse, C-shaped, closed and anterior position.

Fun, multi-purpose, wellness design icon.

Sitting on a ball is certainly fun, and an environment characterised by active seating intrigues and stimulates patrons simply because it is inherent in human nature to have a propensity to learn and try out motor gestures, from the simplest to the most complex.

An office, a meeting room, a hotel room, a waiting area, where, instead of normal seating, we find Active Sitting Balls expresses, in terms of design, a precise intention: well-being through movement.

The Active Sitting Ball is also a real piece of equipment, a gym ball, which can be used to perform numerous exercises, starting with so-called office exercises, which are useful to compensate for the closed, forward posture, typical of working at a PC.

Active sitting means sitting that promotes changes in posture but awareness is required.

In addition to the pros of a session that promotes changes in posture, some cons should also be analysed.

• As is the case with any type of sitting, bad postural habits can also occur on the ball. Of these, sitting in one position, thus avoiding applying the principle of movement to sitting, is certainly the worst. Assuming a C-shaped, closed and forward posture, forgetting to move the pelvis by stimulating the natural lobar lordosis is the second and most common bad habit.
• The ball is highly unstable and the danger of falling is greater than with a normal chair.
• Active sitting is obviously more tiring, especially for sedentary people. This is why it is necessary to proceed with a very progressive use of the Active Sitting Ball, so that the muscles, buttocks and trunk above all, adapt to the movement and the new workload. One hour a day, in increments of thirty minutes each week, can be considered an example of progressive use.
• Active Sitting Ball is not covered in the Consolidated Occupational Health and Safety Act. Legislative Decree 81/08 is in fact inspired by an idea of seating that we could almost say is contrary to that of the Active Sitting Ball. The working seat, we read in fact, must be stable and the backrest must provide adequate support to the user's back-lumbar region. It is the idea of a body to be supported and set correctly, as if there were a correct posture in sitting and as if fixity and lack of movement were not one of the main problems for people's health.

Description:

PVC GymBall with weighted bottom.
Polyester fabric cover + rubberized non-slip pad.
Diameter 65 cm (60-65 cm depending on inflation).
Weight 1.7 kg

Available in 5 aesthetic variations:
0448/5 dark grey - Large Sidea logo + embroidered S logo
0448/6 colour Dark Grey
0448/7 tobacco brown
0448/8 light grey
0448/9 light cream colour

Attention: the ball does not come with an inflating pump