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Leggings? For men? Yes, we know, but hear us out. For far too long, we men have been depriving ourselves of the comfiest, most practical legwear there is. While women walk around in total spandex comfort all day every day, we make do with jeans for the day to day, shorts for the gym and joggers for lounging around.

It works, but when you consider that societal norms are the only thing standing between us and a single wonder garment that can cover all of the above, it starts to feel like it might be time for a rethink. Compression pants have been embraced by athletes and fitness enthusiasts for decades for their health and performance benefits during and after physical activities. That being said, they’ve always been considered an undergarment to be worn with shorts over them. Well friends, times are changing.

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Whether you’re hitting the squat rack at the gym, crushing the WOD at Crossfit, running a marathon, perfecting your yoga poses, or just running errands around town, a pair of tights will allow you to do it in comfort, with added support for your muscles, and greater freedom of movement than even the techiest pair of sweatpants.

For those ready to make the leap into a new, comfier way of life, we’ve rounded up a few of our favourite leggings options for men below, along with some pro buying tips to ensure you end up with the right pair.

The Best Leggings For Men

Matador Meggings

Matador is an innovative men’s athleisure brand primarily known for its men’s leggings specifically designed for the male anatomy featuring a no-VPL (visible penis line) modesty pad concealing the groin department, multiple pockets, a T-shirt/towel loop at the back, an inner drawstring and high performance sweat-wicking silky fabric.

The brand offer dozens of options ranging from subtle plain black through to bold colours and out-there prints.

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Lululemon License To Train Tights

Featuring a neat bonded construction for flat seams, these training tights are the work of arguably the biggest name in leggings and the brand that started the athleisure movement. They’re made from abrasion-resistant “Luxtreme” fabric, and have added Lycra for stretch and shape retention.

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Nike Dri-FIT ADV AeroSwift Tights

Part of Nike’s flagship racing range, these streamlined leggings are designed with speed in mind. The fabric is breathable and moisture wicking, and there’s extra ventilation in the waist for increased airflow and comfort. There’s also a number of concealed pockets featuring a moisture barrier to keep your valuables dry on the go.

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Under Armour HeatGear Armour Leggings

These understated leggings from Under Armour are the brand’s original performance baselayer. They’re packed full of technical features like strategically placed mesh panels for ventilation, and ergonomic seam placement to keep high-wear areas irritation free.

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Adidas Techfit 3-Stripes Training Long Tights

Made with 60% multiple recycled materials, adidas brings AEROREADY to the leggings game which manages your body’s moisture to keep you dry. Low to medium Techfit gives you a sleek and compressive feel for no-interference comfort and optimal support in all the right places.

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Puma Favourite Long Men’s Running Tights

Constructed with Puma’s signature dryCELL technology these tights will keep you cool and dry via strategically placed mesh inserts for breathability. Complete with a zip pocket at the back, reflective design elements and an internal drawcord at the waist for a custom fit.

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2XU Light Speed Compression Tights

2XU’s Light Speed Compression Tights boast Muscle Containment Stamping (MCS) technology, which were developed with the impact running has on the legs in mind. The result is reduced muscle movement, damage and fatigue. They’re lightweight, flexible, quick drying and feature graduated compression.

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Matador Biker Meggings

These cycling leggings are designed to cater to all abilities, from professional cyclists to casual bikers, making them ideal for a long bike ride or spinning class.

As with all Matador’s products, these biker meggings are designed with men’s anatomy in mind, aiming to offer an incredibly comfortable experience. The built-in soft and fluffy padding will keep your bum comfy (during and after your session), while the modesty pad will conceal your goodies using the brand’s NO-VPL (No Visible Penis Line) technology.

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Buying Considerations

Material

Under Armour

Most leggings are made from a nylon-lycra blend. This makes them super stretchy, light, sweat wicking and quick drying. That said, lots of brands use slightly different variations, and some even have their own proprietary fabrics, particularly when it comes to high-performance activewear. Nike, for example, has its Dri-FIT polyester material that’s designed specifically to keep the wearer dry during strenuous workouts. There are also fleece-backed fabrics that are great for training in cold weather.

Colour & Pattern

Matador Meggings

Most men’s leggings come in black, which is a solid option if you’re just interested in the practical benefits of compression legwear and prefer to keep a low profile. That said, there are certain brands out there that specialise in bold and bright leggings geared towards anyone looking to make a statement. Matador Meggings is one of the key players here, and has plenty of vibrant block-colour and patterned options for brightening up your gym sessions.

Pattern

2XU

Again, men’s leggings from many of the big brands tend to be black or at least fairly understated, but there are options out there for those who want a bit of pattern on their leggings. Matador is the main name when it comes to punchy printed leggings, and has become a popular choice for festival goers and party people, as well as fitness fanatics.

Special Features

Under Armour

Leggings are technical garments designed for athletes. As such, many of them are jam packed full of special features and tech to take workouts to the next level while optimising comfort, performance and looks. Brands like Nike and Adidas are always competing to come up with the best new fabric technologies, while Lululemon has no less than nine proprietary materials in its range. There’s also the likes of Matador, which has incorporated a padded cup into the crotch of its leggings to protect the wearers modesty when working out – a nifty idea, and one that might appeal to those who’ve been on the fence about leggings due to how little they leave to the imagination.

Vegetarian Diets

Vegetarian diets are composed of foods from plant sources. There are some variations of vegetarian diets: lacto-ovo vegetarian diets include dairy and eggs, whereas vegan diets exclude dairy and any other products from animal sources. A macrobiotic diet includes mostly grains, legumes, and vegetables, and, to a lesser extent, seeds, fruits, and nuts. When limited amounts of fish are included in the macrobiotic diet, it is no longer considered vegetarian.

The reasons for choosing any type of vegetarian diet are varied and may include religion, beliefs about animal rights, concern about environmental conservation, world hunger issues, and health.^[1,2] Perhaps because of this conscious choice to avoid meat products, vegetarians and vegans have been found to be more concerned about health issues^[3,4] and usually are fairly well informed about a balanced vegetarian diet. The number of persons who choose a vegetarian diet is increasing in North America.^[5] About 2.5% of adults in the United States follow a vegetarian diet, and about 1% of those are vegan.^[5] Typically, vegetarians are most often female and live in large cities and coastal areas.^[5]

Some misunderstand and may criticize the nutritional adequacy of such diets. The American Dietetic Association asserts that a balanced vegetarian and vegan diet is adequate to maintain health for all stages of life, including during pregnancy and lactation.^[6] The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine^[7] and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists^[8] agree that well planned vegetarian diets can be a healthy choice for pregnant women. Dietary guidelines from the US Department of Health include vegetarian diets as a way of achieving recommended nutrient intakes.^[9]

Epidemiologic nutritional studies have documented numerous benefits of vegetarian diets. Vegetarians have been reported to have low rates of obesity, coronary diseases, diabetes, and many cancers.^[10] High consumption of foods commonly found in vegetarian diets, such as fruits and vegetables, legumes and unrefined cereals, and nuts have been consistently associated with a lower risk for developing many chronic degenerative diseases.^[10] Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES 2001-2002)^[11] revealed a deficiency in the American diet of fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. The US Dietary Guidelines and the objectives for Healthy People 2010^[12] endorse an increase in fruit, vegetable, and whole grain consumption for Americans in order to Excellerate health.

• By Colm Gavin
• Digital Transformation

Summary

As digital trends evolve throughout industrial automation, more individuals and organizations are realizing the benefits of modeling and simulation on their production systems. These practices can lower design and development costs and reduce time spent troubleshooting equipment in the field during commissioning. Perhaps less well known is an equally important benefit: simulation can also help continuously optimize operational efficiency, especially when production data is used to calibrate the model. This methodology is known as a closed-loop digital twin (CLDT).

A digital twin is a virtual representation of a physical asset. The CLDT expands on digital twins by using historical data to Excellerate accuracy over time. Particularly in material handling and manufacturing, it is difficult to determine labor and machine utilization, and a CLDT can identify and provide insights and recommendations to Excellerate the efficiency of these systems. CLDTs also provide benefits during the design and commissioning stages of a system’s lifecycle, but this article focuses on their usage during operation. While a system is in service, a CLDT helps users make informed decisions to adjust operations on the fly for improved efficiency.

Old models stagnate

In manufacturing and intralogistics environments, facility managers are faced with the difficult task of maintaining optimal key performance indicators (KPIs) despite daily and unplanned changes in employee numbers; large unexpected incoming or outgoing orders; and package-handling bottlenecks.

Facility models can help staff identify critical production points to achieve aggressive operational targets, but many of these models are rigid at best or inaccurate at worst. To maximize efficiency and productivity, staff need a model that can be tuned, but most facilities do not have the trained personnel or the time to manually perform these adjustments. Additionally, with so many control variables, it is difficult to know what to even simulate in a model. Models guided with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can bring answers to these and other problems.

Insight-bearing digital twins

The digital twin methodology provides precise insight for optimizing parameters to meet and maintain KPIs. Expanding on this concept, a CLDT creates an accurate replica of the assets’ current states to forecast accuracy beyond that of a standard digital twin without feedback. CLDTs compare current state conditions with numerous adaptations to determine an optimal future state, aided by artificial intelligence and machine learning.

In this process of generating and evaluating potential future states, cloud computing power is immensely useful for simulation and data ingestion. In an ideal scenario, a machine builder or system integrator develops a CLDT to aid in the development process, and they then deliver it with their product, giving end users the ability to continue using it. As detailed below, CLDTs have benefits for machine builders and end users during the design, commissioning, and operation phases of the machine lifecycle.

Design phase

During the design phase, CLDTs empower machine builders and system integrators to persuasively demonstrate the effectiveness of their design to potential customers, equipped with statistics and visual interfaces to monitor virtual machine performance. These models and simulations can be used to convincingly predict the outputs end users are looking for, increasing confidence in designers’ proposals, and enabling them to win more bids.

By delivering a CLDT with their systems, machine builders can leverage the investment beyond the design phase, creating additional revenue streams through an ongoing services model. This gives them the ability to follow up and support products deployed in operation, and it extends and strengthens the relationship between machine builders and end users.

For end users, these digital twins increase profit margins by accurately forecasting capital and operating expenditures—along with throughput—providing a baseline from which to increase operational efficiency. They can do this through informed decision-making with the aid of a CLDT.

Commissioning phase

During development and commissioning, a digital twin combined with programmable logic control (PLC) and human-machine interface (HMI) simulation helps engineers spot bugs and inefficiencies in a machine before physical equipment and moving parts come into the picture. The addition of a digital twin to PLC and HMI simulation is a clear link between the automation programming logic and machine performance, complete with a virtual visualization of the machine. This setup makes it easy to find problems early on.

By identifying potential issues virtually and early in the commissioning phase, these tools limit unexpected and costly project changes. Additionally, greater virtual troubleshooting and testing abilities shorten required physical commissioning time, while reducing labor requirements and costs for integrators. 

Shorter and more effective commissioning benefits end users because systems start up and enter production on time, with reduced chances of costly change orders late in the commissioning phase. And unlike classic commissioning processes, hands-on digital twin plant simulation enables end users to begin operator training and equipment tuning programs well ahead of physical commissioning.

Operations phase

Throughout operations, a closed-loop system brings its greatest value with cloud collectors that ingest production data, providing continual fine tuning for optimal operational states. Simulation with a digital twin provides:

• experimentation of multiple states, modeling hours of production and estimating results in a matter of seconds.
• prediction of important KPIs—like throughput, utilization, and idle time.

Closing the loop and supplying a simulation with historical data greatly improves simulation accuracy.

The resulting CLDT enables fine tuning of operations by providing reports with optimal parameters, such as machine settings, manpower allocations, and shipping/receiving capacities, through a combination of simulations and AI/ML. Facility staff can set up automatic report generation at specific time frames—for example, before or during shifts, or in preparation for a daily staff meeting.

When human-based analysis is required to augment a decision-making process, easily understood model visualization provides insights into the way a facility operates. Visual simulation helps staff identify production bottlenecks and areas where excess resources are allocated. It enables staff to simulate multiple scenarios to answer situational questions—such as “What happens if there are fewer associates at a picking station?” or “What if too many robots are being sent to one area (e.g., picking) versus another (e.g., loading)?” CLDT software gives users the capability to adjust control variables and visualize their effects on operations (figure 1), quickly resolving these and other issues.

Visual elements help users better understand the numbers and point out where changes need to be made. These software tools evaluate the best utilization of machines and labor—for instance, ensuring a warehouse has enough trucks available at the loading bay to handle outgoing shipments, but not too many, to avoid sending away unloaded trucks.

In situations involving a large number of parameters and theoretical combinations to experiment with, automated software helps eliminate redundant or impractical experiments by intelligently identifying those that are feasible. This can reduce thousands of combinations to tens or fewer, ultimately identifying the best set of parameters (figure 2).

Creating the calibrated CLDT

To calibrate the CLDT, the first step is connecting the digital twin with the automation equipment to feed data to the model. Edge devices are prime interfaces for data collection because they can preprocess machine data before sending it to the cloud for synchronization with the CLDT’s historical data-based optimization algorithm.

Users can build, operate, deploy, and maintain software solutions across multiple edge devices using managed edge apps. Numerous apps are available for analyzing machine data. Their ecosystem—including patch and version control—is managed through a central system deployed in the cloud or on premises.

Using industrial edge controllers reduces the number of devices connecting to machines on the plant floor. They also provide the means for an on-premises simulation solution, or advanced analysis in a cloud-based simulation.

With a simulation in the cloud on an open Internet of Things (IoT) cloud platform, users can map data from the plant floor to the digital twin model. This data is used to create insights for optimizing conditions and control variables on the production lines to maximize throughput and other KPIs. Some cloud platforms include a dedicated app for preparing and aggregating time series data into a simulation application (figure 3).

Results

A manufacturing company recently added a high-volume production line at its facility, containing 75 machines, 25 pick-and-place robots, and conveyor belts to perform complex material handling operations. Coordinating the vast amount of equipment required careful planning to implement and optimize operations after commissioning. The project team developed a digital twin to aid design and commissioning efforts, and closed the loop once machines were installed, creating a calibrated CLDT (figure 4).

CLDTs streamline operation

Digital twins are already widely accepted for identifying potential issues early in design and development, reducing error occurrence, and speeding up physical commissioning. Their potential value multiplies during operation. 

A calibrated CLDT reduces the time required for manually monitoring production data, and eliminates human guesswork involved in planning procedural changes and resource reallocation to increase efficiency. This translates to streamlined operation and higher profit margins, empowering manufacturers and intralogistics companies to become more competitive in demanding markets.

All figures courtesy of Siemens