How is walking speed affected by the clothes you wear? I spend 30 minutes a day to get my activity tracker to record thirty “active minutes”. In my case this requires a minimum of ten minutes of uninterrupted walking at a reasonable pace; otherwise, the tracker ignores that session of walking. Very often I find that the tracker does not record any active minutes when I walk 15 minutes continuously. I guessed I was not walking fast enough in my lungi and switched to walking with track pants or shorts, and discovered that the problem was solved.
Why is this important? Probably 30 to 40 percent of the women in India wear the sari, a six-yard piece of cloth that is wrapped around. Probably 20 to 30% of the men wear lungis, dhotis, or veshtis, which are again sheets wrapped around. Does such wear reduce walking speed and ability to carry heavy things? Does it reduce the step size? Does it contribute to an increase in the accident rate the users experience? Does it make it more difficult to carry a child on a walk, or to ride a two-wheeler? Does it reduce the exercise one gets by walking a little faster and a little farther?
I think the cloth you wear affect your speed since sweat play an important role in reducing your ambition to walk. Thus people who wear something heavy become more lazy to achieve their goals. I probably relate that to natural process. Our cell are active when we are more cold than hot. Old people are greatly affected by the cloth they wear than you one. Amputated people specially below knee amputees prefer light cloth specially the old. See American academy of prosthetic and orthotics.
Shrinivasan
Clothes you wear do affect the walking speed, however, there are many factors which contribute the same degree to the clothes, especially atmospheric condition, foot-wear, etc., at the time of walking. All factors must be taken into consideration equating with the worn clothes and this would be a cumbersome to do as it is not worthy of consideration.
Dr. K
I think to understand the best effects, you should take all these variables as factors and run some factorial design experiments using DOE to come up with the optimum condition
Gabi
You got it. Try out. Factorial design would iron out the effect of these factors and would give which one is the most dominant factor affecting to walking speed.
Dr. K
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