Chair review after 3 or 4 weeks

A few weeks have passed by since I started using my ergonomic chair and therefore it is time for a second review of how it is performing.

My first impressions of the chair were good. It has lots of adjustable functionality and you can easily set it up for any individual and seated postion.

Those initial impressions remain.

The chair is comfortable, it is easy and fast to adjust and the seat tilt angle is invaluable. I am quickly coming to the conclusion that this is the single most important feature of the chair after the height adjustment.

I am also finding that using an increasingly “forward” tilted seat angle encourages me to sit up straight, support my own back (rather than with the back rest) and feel comfortable whilst maintaining a good posture.

The armrests too are something that I use more than I might have imagined and I find that having them set slightly below the level of my desk offer the bests support and comfort.

If I have any minor criticisms they relate to the lack of backwards recline of the backrest, i.e. it is impossible to recline back and create an obtuse angle between the legs and body. The other minor flaw (at least for me) is that I would prefer a little more padding on the seat. It make me wonder what mesh seats feel like after 8 or 9 hours sat in them.

Even so, my overall view of this chair is still quite high. I find it easy to get comfortable on it and it is wide enough to allow plenty of movement, even sideways lazy slouching if required.

Ergonomic chair – latest thoughts (2)

I have now been using my new ergonomic chair for almost two weeks and so far it has more than lived up to my expectations.

After struggling to remain in any comfortable position for more than a few minutes on my previous chair, I find that this chair is quite the reverse. The adjustments are quick and easy and the lumbar support, which results from a combination of an inflatable backrest balloon zone and an up-down action sliding backrest, are extremely good.

The seat tilt is also critical and I am amazed at how having the seat base tilted forwards and downwards does provide an ideal working position.

The other big surprise is how beneficial the arm rests are and the extent to which I am using them. I am also surprised to realise that the inward tilt action (which I thought rather a novelty) is very useful as it allows the armrests to offer good forearm support when typing.

All told I am struggling to find a negative feature of the chair at present and I am quickly concluding that it is one of the best £230 that I have spent in a long time.

The other great thing about this kind of chair is the speed and ease with which you can make immediate changes to position in lots of subtle, but important, ways. Even as I write this post, I quickly change the forward tilt to an even greater downward angle and it causes a change in the relaxation of all the back and torso muscles in a positive way. In half a second I can reverse the position, or make a near limitless number of combination changes that see my posture taking new positions all the time. Something that my chiropractor recommends as being important to anyone who remains seated for long periods of time.

I will add another review in a couple more weeks with, I hope, an equally favourable reaction.