Cycling

The good thing about having to work from home is that it saves you all the morning torture of deciding what to wear and the hassle of getting ready top to toe. Though, it does have its share of trouble too. Here are a few tips on how you can nail adelaide workwear for work from home.

Accessorize

Work from home entails that you sit your screen on a table top and get on working. For meetings and such interactions your visibility to others remains limited to the upper half of your body. Given the specifications of such an interaction, work towards refining your appearance with accessories. For instance if you have just woken up and have no time to dress up, build up on whatever you are wearing. For instance, wet comb your hair and set them for a sleek look, put on your accessories like a watch, glasses and earrings. You can tuck in your nightshirt to make it look more presentable. You can even put on a blazer, tweed or a simple sweater. Invest in such accessories to battle with work from home worries. Even if you do not have to go in front of the camera, do not ditch the accessories. They will help you in boosting your work hormones.

Not too Comfortable Nor Too Stiff

Work from home is relieving, so you can ditch those brogues and heels but this doesn’t mean that you can sit barefoot. Remember, not too comfortable or too stiff. Find a place in between where you are not defying any codes of professionalism and productivity while also saving yourself from all the tough formalities. It’s your house so you can simply put on a suitable top yet stay in your PJ’s but that won’t be wise. To put on suit pants won’t be wise either. Why inflict the agony of such corporate clothing when you can save yourself the additional pain. Instead, changing into a pair of jeans will enable you to dress up comfortably and presentably. Chances are that your lowers won’t even be visible but you cannot defy the code altogether. It impacts your productivity and thus the importance and impact of clothing becomes very real. It is important to create the momentum and the atmosphere with the right setting and props.

Avoid Fancy and Street Wear

You can revamp your night shirt with accessories or by tucking it in to make it look presentable but this does not mean that everything can work. Too fancy and too street-style are two ends that you don’t want to reach. Work from home does not mean that you have the opportunity to utilize unused or less used fancy tops because that does not fit the moment. Clothes have the power to adjust your mood. If you’re wearing too fancy, you will start feeling too fancy to work at all! Similarly, street clothing like shorts and sleeveless basketball like tops do not work for work at home either. As comfortable as they can be, they are too casual and unfit in terms of professionalism.

In the bicycle saddle, the height adjustment is probably the most important that you have to do when setting up your bike. Dall ‘ height of the saddle , and by its possible retraction, depend in fact, the comfort on the bike (and any pain due to its lack, as explained here ), the ability to express strength and power on the pedals and finally the prevention of certain disorders such as back pain.

A good method, half scientific and half empirical, to adjust the height of the saddle, particularly in racing bikes , is to start from the correct biomechanics of pedaling . Numerous scientific studies have in fact now established that there is a very precise position that allows you to express maximum power on the pedals with the lowest energy consumption. Maximum yield with minimum effort: this biomechanically advantageous position is called KOPS, Knee Over Pedal Splinde , and consists in the fact that when the pedal is parallel to the ground in the forward position, the knee is vertically aligned with the foot support point on the pedal, which is the metatarsal. It is the most natural position from the biomechanical point of view: with the more advanced knee the power is emphasized but with greater muscular expenditure; with a more backward knee position you are more comfortable but you also put less power on the pedals.

To correctly adjust the height of the saddle with respect to the cycling position, there are a couple of empirical methods, such as that which involves pedaling backwards by resting the heel on the pedal (and the correct position would be the one that allows you to fully stretch your leg when the pedal is in a vertical downward position) or that used by many people which consists in finding the position of balance on the tips of the feet once seated on the seat : these are precisely empirical, practical but also not recommended methods because they are subject to wide margins of error .

The scientifically most reliable way to correctly adjust the height of the bicycle saddle according to a convenient biomechanical position is to start from the height of the horse, i.e. the distance between the ground and the pubic symphysis , which is the resting point of the bones of the pelvis with saddle. The height of the horse is measured by leaning against a wall with bare feet and spreading the feet by about 10cm by simulating the distance on the pedals and then pressing under the pubis upwards with a pencil before marking the height on the wall. Measured in cm, this is the height of the horse.

The adjustment of the position on the bicycle, from the height of the saddle to the handlebar, is an alchemy that is always difficult to find, even for professional cyclists. But of all the adjustments that can and must be done to find the ideal position in the saddle, the one that concerns the part of the foot to be placed on the pedal of the bicycle is probably the most delicate. For two reasons: the first concerns the ability to impart force on the pedals and therefore the thrust or speed with which the bike proceeds; the second concerns biomechanics since, pedaling cycle after pedaling cycle, an incorrect position of the foot on the pedals can lead to serious joint consequences.

Which part of the foot to rest on the bicycle pedals
When it comes to putting your foot on the pedal of the bicycle there are basically 3 possibilities: to support and push with the heel ; support and push with the tip of the feet ; support and push with the forefoot , or rather with the part corresponding to the metatarsal. Each of these positions has its strengths and weaknesses but only one is the really correct one and the one required by the shoes with the quick coupling and release device.

Heel pedaling
It is the typical pedaling when the saddle is set too high. It is not necessarily the heel that rests on the pedal, but surely in this case the heel is lower than the axis of the pedal when it is parallel to the ground in its lowest position. From the biomechanical point of view this pedaling is incorrect because it involves two problems: the first is that the ankle joint always remains too closed, keeping both the tibial muscles and the calves in tension; the second, consequently, is that there is less power on the pedals than could be expressed with a correct and effective position.

The peak ride
This is the opposite of the previous one and occurs when the saddle is set too low . In this case, the ankle joint always remains too open and only the fingertips rest on the pedal. In this case, the calf is always too tense and in the calculation of the directions of the forces impressed by the legs on the pedals, the useless one that wastes energy is too marked.