What makes a standing desk so extremely helpful for video production and live streaming? Will you please look at this with me because for the first year or two I did live streaming and video production, I sat down to record my videos and I learned that having a standing desk makes the video production process so much easier, more effective and it has a ton of health benefits?
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When people watch our videos, our energy comes through very clearly. What kind of energy do we want to transmit on our videos?
I got feedback when I used to do my videos sitting down that I talked in too much of a monotone, that I sounded too boring, that I didn't sound enthusiastic and excited about what I was doing.
I discovered that it is a part of body language, especially if we do something like we cross our arms and we sit down, we get defensive, we get annoying: “I don't really like this. I'm going to tell you about this product today.”
When you stand up, open your arms up, jump around, move your hands, it gets really easy to essentially turn it into a performance, instead of trying to sit there and, “Oh! I can't record this right now. What's wrong?”
You stand up. You pitch. You get all the way into it. You have fun. You present.
Essentially, I feel like I'm on stage, like doing stand-up comedy or some kind of a routine. Having the body language of standing up is extremely helpful for a more animated and exciting video.
Now, sure, some people are turned off by excitement?
Do you want that for your audience?
I personally want an audience that's turned on by genuine enthusiasm and excitement. I saw a comment on one of my posts, "How can you get up there and lie and look so genuine while you're doing it."
Maybe it's easy for me to just share my truth, especially standing up. I've noticed when my mother talks on the phone with me, she's consistently walking and pacing around, and then if she wants to listen she sits down.
I've noticed the same thing, if it's time for me to talk, all I need to do is stand up, stick a microphone and a camera in front of my face, and words will just come out.
When we script stuff and try to sit down and read it, "my God, that's boring." I can't stand courses that are like that.
"Now, when you're in this program, you go over here and click on that, and then you go down here. You click on the …"
Argh!
I need to get out and let it out.
A standing desk for almost all of us helps us to just let it all out. I challenge you to notice how you are behaving when you are sitting down versus standing up. When you are standing up, I bet you will notice it's a lot easier to just talk to people.
I notice most of the conversations I have with people are standing up unless at night with my wife, we will have a nice calm situation relaxing at the end of the day. We will sit down on the couch and talk quietly.
If what you have to share is more appropriate to a sitting down and talking quietly on the couch conversation, then go for it.
I encourage you, based on 10,000 reviews on my courses, hundreds of thousands of comments on YouTube, the thousands of comments on Steem and Facebook, to get excited, to put your passion and energy, to let it all out.
A standing desk makes that way easier. It's just natural.
Now, some things that are challenging, which standing desk do I use?
This is the exact standing desk I use. This was one of those things I spent months researching. I got this desk and it works perfectly.
It sits perfectly. It doesn't shake. My two and a half-year-old daughter has even played and swung around on it. It sits perfectly on the floor. It's got great reviews. It works outstanding.
What I do, I just put it at a static level. I don't put it up and down, but this is awesome because it's a sit-stand desk. It can sit and stand. I just use it as a standing desk.
I will show you what's really nice about this desk, it is big enough for all this equipment on it too. I was thinking about getting a smaller standing desk, but you don't want it to feel crowded, especially if you are producing videos.
You can see how much equipment I have on this desk.
This desk is wide enough for two monitors side-by-side, and if I show you the full picture you can see that I actually have three computers on this one desk.
Now, technically the PC base station is down on the bottom, but the Mac Pro is up here. I got an iMac on the side, and then I've got the Windows PC.
I've got the preamp over here and I even have room for a bass trap. I've got speakers and a keyboard. I've got musical interfaces here and another keyboard here. I have two different mouse pads.
It’s really nice to have some space and the standing desk is really helpful for that. I then got a shelving unit over to the side, which I can put this monitor.
I wall-mounted this other monitor over here.
So, I got four monitors all in one standing spot, which makes my life just so much easier.
This is the exact sit-stand desk I have and it works perfectly. It's a beautiful size to have a nice open space. You see how much I'm moving and talking on here. I want to be able to have a nice open spot so there is room for my hands.
I got the microphone a good distance from my mouth and I've got just a perfect setup to essentially step into here effortlessly and perform every day.
The standing desk is a big part of that.
I researched it so much because I was so afraid of buying the wrong one. I was so afraid of setting it up. I was afraid of it not balancing. I was afraid of so much. I bought this standing desk about two years ago, set it up and it's been absolutely perfect since then.
Now, for standing desks, there is a ton of health benefits because these human bodies are not designed to sit down all day. Back pain and neck pain are signs that we are doing something our body does not like. It's trying to tell us to stop that.
You sit down hunched over a computer all day, then your back and your neck hurt.
"Stop sitting down hunching over the computer all day!"
Simple message.
You don't need back surgery.
You don't need a bunch of medication.
Do something else.
When I was filming video courses often eight or ten hours a day, five or six, sometimes seven days a week, I was also playing video games sitting down, and I often had the desire to stand up.
I found myself wanting to stand up and move around more. It got uncomfortable sitting down for long periods of time. My first innovation was to use the shelving unit as a standing desk and to split my time between my sitting desk and my standing desk.
I noticed people liked the videos I did a lot better at the standing desk on the shelving unit than they did on the chair with the sitting down. I then got used to standing up and now I can stand up all day if needed and just film videos and work on a computer.
I've played video games standing up for six or eight hours before live streaming and what's funny is at the beginning of the live stream, *"I'm up here. I'm good,” and then by the end of the live stream, I'm like hunched over leaning on the desk like tired.
That's good because our body is like standing up for a lot of the day. Our bodies are built to stand up and move around. That's why they are designed in the upright position. If we were supposed to be bent over all day, we'd have four legs instead of two arms and two legs.
These things are meant to stand up. When you don't follow the operating instructions, it will cause pain.
Since I've started standing up my back pain and my neck pain have been greatly reduced. My energy levels have greatly increased. The responses to my videos have gone way up and it burns extra calories.
I've also lost weight because what you will notice if you are overweight like I was, I weighed 70 more pounds than I do now, which is about thirty kilograms, when I started doing videos at my stand-up desk that was exhausting to stand up: "I've been on my feet all day."
I've said that lots of times, "I've been on my feet all day filming videos."
It shouldn't be hard to be on your feet all day. These bodies are meant to be on their feet all day, and then to sit down and rest at night, or to sit down and rest at some point during the day.
Read the book, "How Not to Die."
If you are struggling with your weight, read the book like I did, "How Not to Die," and follow the instructions in it. It works really well, not just for weight, it works to prevent almost every single cause of death.
It's like the Bible for food and diet written by a medical doctor. Tons of amazing scientific research with very clear instructions.
Eat half-whole fruits and vegetables mostly raw.
Eat nuts, whole grains, and beans with minimal processing as possible, like hummus, oatmeal and peanuts, or if you are allergic try something else.
Fruits and vegetables.
Raw carrots.
I like all kinds of raw fruits, and then occasionally something cooked like kale chips or a cooked meal, so you feel like a normal person here and there.
Very little animal products.
Very little things like added sugar, salt or you can have some, but if you want to look good and feel good, do the best videos, be able to stand up at your desk all day and not feel tired, this is what it does.
I feel better. I've got more energy than I ever have in any other part of my life, even as a teenager. I feel better at 30, almost 34 than I ever have before.
Age is just an idea. It's not a reality.
What you do to your body is a reality.
Sitting in a chair bent over every day, that's a reality.
The standing desk is an absolute miracle for health, it's an absolute essential tool to do an outstanding live stream that's energetic, that's passionate and natural, where you don't need a script, where you don't have to force yourself.
I don't have to force myself to come up here and make videos.
I know how to talk to people, I've got thirty-one or thirty-two years of experience, according to my mother, talking.
Talking is natural.
Telling the truth is natural and easy.
This is my truth.
It's easy to share that standing up moving around the same way I would have conversations with other people. You basically just have to get used to talking to this camera like it's another person.
I talk to you like you are right here standing across from me in the room. That makes it easy. A standing desk is a huge part of that.
Thank you very much for reading this.
If you want to find the link to this exact standing desk, you may wonder, "What's the name of that again?"
I've got all the links in one spot for everything, except a few things like the link to my speaker, that I will add later.
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I love you.
You are awesome.
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