Driving – Relaxed On The Road
November 28, 2008 by rainier
An hour a day. That’s how much an average commuter drives, according to research. That’s 15 days a year! Suppose you drive a car for about 40 years, that means you spend about one and a half year of your life driving. When you have a wrong or tense posture while driving, you can build up some tension in all this time. Relaxation is the keyword yet again! It is of great importance that you set your chair in the right height, so you can sit as relaxed as possible, and so you can see the neighbourhood well.
1)Sit down in your car and set, if possible, the right position for the chair. Keep an eye on the amount of road and neighbourhood you’ll see (also traffic lights above the road). Most of the time, a higher position is found nicest. This makes stepping into the car easier, and gives more survey on the road etc.Kick down the clutch totally and push your chair so much forward or backward that the front of the seat touches the upper leg.
2)Kick down the clutch totally and push your chair so much forward or backward that the front of the seat touches the upper leg.
3)Grab the top of the steering wheel with slightly bend arms and adjust the back so that the lower back is supported. Afterwards you can adjust the lumbar support if present, adjust it to the hollow part of your back.
4)You may want to adjust this with axial and radial adjustments of the steering wheel (make sure you don’t lose sight on your dashboard when doing a radial adjustments). The steering wheelpedal range is usually small in a car, so if you have “long” legs you have the steering wheel all out. And put it as low as possible so that you can get out of the car without touching the wheel. A low steering wheel position is less burdening for the shoulders.
5)Put the head support on the right height (rounding of the head support on height of the rounding of your head)
