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The 20,000-Step Workday

Eight hours in a chair feels like paying rent on my own body.

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Aug 25, 2026
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Your back starts talking to you around 12PM, just as you go for lunch…

Not loudly. Just a tightness low in the spine, the kind you stretch out and forget about, until hour six, when it’s not asking anymore.

If that’s familiar, you’re not imagining it and you’re not out of shape. Office workers in the U.S. report low back pain at a rate of roughly 25.7%. A…

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