Moving in the places you actually spend your day: a seat you cannot leave, a hotel room, a shift on your feet, in work clothes, in front of other people.https://getmainpose.com/https://getmainpose.com/blogs/waiting-in-a-parked-car/https://getmainpose.com/blogs/waiting-in-a-parked-car/Engine off, handbrake on, and you are not getting out. What becomes available in a driver's seat once the vehicle has stopped moving.Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTdrivingseatedhttps://getmainpose.com/blogs/nowhere-to-sit-but-the-floor/https://getmainpose.com/blogs/nowhere-to-sit-but-the-floor/A hard floor, no back rest, and hours to fill. Floor sitting has more available shapes than any chair, and rotating them is the whole method.Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTseatedin-publichttps://getmainpose.com/blogs/waiting-to-be-called/https://getmainpose.com/blogs/waiting-to-be-called/A waiting room where your name could be called at any second. The constraint is the summons: everything has to be abandonable, so nothing gets settled.Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTseatedin-publichttps://getmainpose.com/blogs/no-room-to-stand-up-straight/https://getmainpose.com/blogs/no-room-to-stand-up-straight/Under a sink, in a loft, in a crawl space. Low headroom holds your spine folded, and the only place you can straighten up is the exit.Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTstanding-workshort-intervalshttps://getmainpose.com/blogs/staying-in-someone-elses-house/https://getmainpose.com/blogs/staying-in-someone-elses-house/A sofa bed, thin walls, and no room that is yours. Harder than a hotel: you have the floor space and no permission to use it.Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThotelin-publichttps://getmainpose.com/blogs/doing-it-where-people-can-see-you/https://getmainpose.com/blogs/doing-it-where-people-can-see-you/In an open-plan office, a ward, or a waiting area, visibility is the real constraint. What reads as normal, and where the unobserved minutes hide.Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTin-publicshort-intervalshttps://getmainpose.com/blogs/what-you-can-do-in-work-clothes/https://getmainpose.com/blogs/what-you-can-do-in-work-clothes/A fitted skirt, a suit, hard shoes and a uniform each forbid something specific. Which movements survive tailoring, and how to work around the rest.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTclothingin-publichttps://getmainpose.com/blogs/standing-all-day-is-its-own-problem/https://getmainpose.com/blogs/standing-all-day-is-its-own-problem/A twelve-hour shift on hard floors isn't the opposite of sitting. What actually accumulates, and what fits in the ninety seconds you get.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTstanding-workshort-intervalshttps://getmainpose.com/blogs/the-hotel-room-problem/https://getmainpose.com/blogs/the-hotel-room-problem/A bed, a chair, a wall and about a metre of floor. What that room can actually give you after a day of travel, using the furniture as equipment.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThoteltravelhttps://getmainpose.com/blogs/moving-in-a-seat-you-cant-leave/https://getmainpose.com/blogs/moving-in-a-seat-you-cant-leave/Seat pitch takes your legs away and leaves your hips and ankles. What's still available in a middle seat, described precisely enough to follow.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTseatedtravelshort-intervalshttps://getmainpose.com/blogs/a-day-up-a-ladder/https://getmainpose.com/blogs/a-day-up-a-ladder/On a ladder you must not move. Two things are worth doing up there; everything else belongs at the bottom, before you move the ladder again.Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTstanding-workshort-intervalshttps://getmainpose.com/blogs/an-outdoor-shift-in-the-cold/https://getmainpose.com/blogs/an-outdoor-shift-in-the-cold/Standing still outside in winter: a gate, a stall, a site, a car park. Cold changes what your body will do, and stiffness is the symptom to work with.Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTstanding-workclothinghttps://getmainpose.com/blogs/holding-a-child-you-cant-put-down/https://getmainpose.com/blogs/holding-a-child-you-cant-put-down/A sleeping toddler on one hip, both hands occupied, and no way to set them down. What's available when the load is a person who decides when it ends.Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTshort-intervalsin-publichttps://getmainpose.com/blogs/carrying-the-same-bag-on-the-same-shoulder/https://getmainpose.com/blogs/carrying-the-same-bag-on-the-same-shoulder/A load you can't put down, always on one side, for the whole commute or shift. The asymmetry is the constraint, not the weight.Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTin-publicshort-intervalshttps://getmainpose.com/blogs/a-day-spent-kneeling/https://getmainpose.com/blogs/a-day-spent-kneeling/Floor-laying, plumbing under a sink, gardening, cleaning. Working at ground level closes every joint at once and gives you nothing to stand up with.Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTstanding-workshort-intervalshttps://getmainpose.com/blogs/working-with-your-arms-above-your-head/https://getmainpose.com/blogs/working-with-your-arms-above-your-head/Ceilings, cabling, painting, hairdressing, shelf-stacking. Overhead work loads the neck and shoulders in a direction almost no advice addresses.Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTstanding-workshort-intervalshttps://getmainpose.com/blogs/a-post-you-cant-leave/https://getmainpose.com/blogs/a-post-you-cant-leave/A till, a security position, a machine, a bar. Standing still in one square metre for a shift is harder than standing work that moves you around.Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTstanding-workin-publichttps://getmainpose.com/blogs/shoes-you-cant-change-out-of/https://getmainpose.com/blogs/shoes-you-cant-change-out-of/Steel toecaps, heels, hard-soled formal shoes, clogs. Footwear you're required to wear changes which movements are possible, not just comfortable.Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTclothingstanding-workhttps://getmainpose.com/blogs/the-bathroom-is-the-only-private-room/https://getmainpose.com/blogs/the-bathroom-is-the-only-private-room/A locked cubicle is often the only unobserved space in a building. What actually fits in one, and what to do about the floor you won't touch.Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTin-publicshort-intervalshttps://getmainpose.com/blogs/movement-that-makes-no-noise/https://getmainpose.com/blogs/movement-that-makes-no-noise/Sometimes the constraint is sound, not sight: a live microphone, a sleeping baby, a silent office, a thin floor. What moves without being heard.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTin-publicshort-intervalshttps://getmainpose.com/blogs/a-plastic-chair-for-hours/https://getmainpose.com/blogs/a-plastic-chair-for-hours/A stacking chair with no adjustment, in a room you can't walk out of for social reasons. The constraint is politeness, and it's stricter than a seatbelt.Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTseatedin-publichttps://getmainpose.com/blogs/getting-off-a-long-flight/https://getmainpose.com/blogs/getting-off-a-long-flight/The stiffest you will be all trip is in the jet bridge, and there's nowhere private for another hour. What to do while you're still in the terminal.Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTtravelin-publichttps://getmainpose.com/blogs/the-airport-between-flights/https://getmainpose.com/blogs/the-airport-between-flights/A layover is the only unstructured time in a travel day, spent in a gate area with a bag you can't leave. How to use it instead of sitting through it.Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTtravelin-publichttps://getmainpose.com/blogs/being-too-tall-for-the-seat/https://getmainpose.com/blogs/being-too-tall-for-the-seat/When your knees are already against the seat in front, most advice assumes room you don't have. What's left when the geometry is against you.Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTseatedtravelhttps://getmainpose.com/blogs/the-overnight-coach/https://getmainpose.com/blogs/the-overnight-coach/A seat that barely reclines, a dark cabin, sleeping neighbours and a journey measured in hours you were meant to be asleep for. What survives that.Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTtravelseatedhttps://getmainpose.com/blogs/standing-on-a-packed-train/https://getmainpose.com/blogs/standing-on-a-packed-train/No seat, one hand on a rail, no room to put a foot anywhere, and the floor moving under you. What the commute leaves available.Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTtravelin-publichttps://getmainpose.com/blogs/the-back-seat-on-a-long-drive/https://getmainpose.com/blogs/the-back-seat-on-a-long-drive/Not a plane: no aisle, no getting up at all, and a stop that happens when the driver decides. What a car passenger has that a flyer doesn't.Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTseatedtravelhttps://getmainpose.com/blogs/a-day-of-short-stops-in-a-van/https://getmainpose.com/blogs/a-day-of-short-stops-in-a-van/In and out of the seat all day, always in a hurry, always carrying something. Why that isn't the same problem as a long drive, and what it needs instead.Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTdrivingshort-intervalshttps://getmainpose.com/blogs/the-fuel-stop-is-the-whole-break/https://getmainpose.com/blogs/the-fuel-stop-is-the-whole-break/A service station forecourt, a car park, and a few minutes you weren't planning to spend on anything. What to get out of a stop you're already making.Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTdrivingshort-intervalshttps://getmainpose.com/blogs/what-a-driver-can-do-while-the-car-is-moving/https://getmainpose.com/blogs/what-a-driver-can-do-while-the-car-is-moving/Hands on the wheel, eyes on the road, and hours before the next stop. The short list of things that don't cost a driver any attention.Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTdrivingseated