I just switched back to an office chair from a gaming chair. The back pain I had for years is gone, my swimming performance improved and I'm even sleeping better. Gaming chairs are worse than sitting on a box

I was a bit confused since I thought they did this a while ago, and yes... video posted 3 years ago. Still a good watch.

My current chair is a gaming chair, but whenever it gives out, I'll most likely go back to an office chair. I do like the reclining feature that most gaming chairs have, though.

Not only because office chairs are better in general, but because gaming chairs are UGLY as fuck. I don't understand why those chairs became the norm, who the fuck wants a car seat in their bedroom?

Y'all don't just steal office chairs?

That what the pandemic was for. Empty offices with no one at their desk ...

buying a steel case gesture years ago was a great decision for me personally.

The chair is made to be sat in 8hrs a day nearly everyday. Office chairs at stores just aren't built that way I find.

The way I see it... I spend the price for this chair now... Or spend the equivalent or more over the years on replacements as cheaper chairs deteriorate.

While we're on the subject of chairs...stop buying those plastic chair mats. Buy tempered glass chair surfaces. They're tougher than you think, buttery smooth and don't flex and crack like the plastic ones.

Plenty of excellent office chairs out there, that have to meet strict ergonomic requirements (Herman Miller, Haworth, bruinzeel, Steelcase to name a few). They are built for sitting in all day and have to have quality fabric to last some years. Above office chairs is a tier for the operators of emergency services and other monitoring stations but these chairs start at 3k.

Gaming chairs don't have to meet any requirements.

Night and day difference between a gaming chair and even a mid tier office chair. I ended up splurging on a steelcase chair and honestly it's been the best thing for gaming/home office set up.

Unless the gaming actually starts caring about ergonomics, I'll stick to office chairs going forward.

I will caveat that while reviews are nice, I was looking at a lot of BTODtv YouTube videos, and informative, definitely find a retailer/seller even if you have to make an appointment and try them out if you can, or actually shifted on what I thought I wanted.

Also, a good new office chair is expensive so see if you have a used office furniture seller/refurbisher lots of deals on used office furniture from major brands at great price.

100% recommend only buying a Herman Miller if you can find one secondhand. It's a decent chair but I'd never in a million years pay retail price for it.

Also, they do have one flaw: if you're on the heavier side, when you lean back all the way your ass kinda high-centers on a ridge in the middle of the base. It's not horrifically uncomfortable, but it is rather off-putting when it happens.

The single best chair I've ever used is some random "leather" office chair I probably picked up at OfficeMax years ago. It's the single most comfortable chair.

This video is quite old, and while I have always been an Office chair > Gaming chair guy, and a lot of things in that video are still true I have a Secret lab Titan Evo, i.e. a gaming chair, even though I despise the aesthetics of it. When I was looking to get a new chair my options were very limited, I had essentially ruled out every other option one way or another and was about to buy an Autonomous ergo chair when a friend of mine did, so I tried the chair at their place, and it sucked. And it sucked in a very specific thing, the cushion was too soft, it felt like almost no cushion at all, and I understood exactly why no reviewer mentioned it, being tall and fat meant I weighed quite substantially more than any of them.

With my last option for an office chair gone I had to look elsewhere. I had never even considered looking into gaming chairs because I know they're all cheap uncomfortable things, but in my research for a chair I found lots of people saying the Secret lab was different, so I started to look at a lot of reviews about it and the consensus was that it was the best gaming chair, even some channels that exclusively review chairs were commenting on how good it was (for a gaming chair), and there was one comment that lots of them did that made me pull the trigger, i.e. "the seat is hard, but not in an unpleasant way, it's kind of like a car seat". I'm used to driving for multiple days at a time, so I know a car seat was better than my current chair and better than any of the office chairs I've tried.

I ended up buying an XL model, and indeed the seat was too hard, but with time I grew used to it, and I also read lots of articles explaining that harder seats are better for the back. I've been using it for a couple of years and the pain I had in my back from sitting on a cheap amazon chair is long gone, I now consider it one of the best chairs I've ever sat in for long periods (which includes a Herman Miller I had at my previous job). Is it the best chair in the world? No, it lacks several adjustments that I had in old chairs that I miss. Is it for everyone? Probably no, if you're not heavy enough I don't think the cushion will feel comfortable even on the long run, and I consider it to be the most comfortable while reclining which is something I do periodically to take the weight off my lower back, so if you don't do this it might not be great. However at that price point it's competitors are cheap office chairs that also lack features or have shitty materials, or good used chairs, and the used market is very specific and might not have what you need when you need it.

So all of this rant is essentially to say that, yes in general Office > Gaming, but there are exceptions and I think that while their conclusions will be very similar they should do another run at it with the Secret lab as a competitor.

I like my SecretLab Titan Evo, it is well made and comfortable for long periods of time. Only thing is it's a bit tall for me but a footrest pillow solved that.

I can't find good office chairs that are for "extra large" people.

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