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Are You Using ALL 3 Planes of Motion?



 3 PLANES... WORKING IN HARMONY

When you have problems with one, you'll compensate with the others. For example, if you are missing strength, stability, balance, mobility or coordination in your ability to shift weight side to side (Frontal Plane), you will call on your Extensors (Sagittal) and/or Rotators (Transverse) to "Pseudo Shift". 🤯 1) Sagittal Plane (Forward & Backward, i.e. Situps) 2) Frontal Plane (Side to Side/Abduction & Adduction, i.e. Jumping Jacks, Side Planks) 3) Transverse Plane (Rotation, i.e. Russian Twist) All natural human movements require at least 2 of these planes to work together. Not all movements are grand and obvious... often it's quite subtle and acts as stability ... but man, are they important and overlooked.
When they all work in harmony, we are fine-tuned athletes. However, the Sagittal Plane is quite dominant. When we don't have good control of the other 2 planes, we use the Sagittal plane to compensate... making it even MORE challenging to move in the Frontal & Transverse Planes.

It's a vicious cycle.
This is one of the many Pre-Learning topics I'll discuss in my "Running Longevity" online course!

I will also be teaching exercises to "undo" the Sagittal dominance & tap into the Frontal & Transverse Planes.


"Set Yourself Up for Running Until Your LAST Days by What You Do TOday"

💗, Kristen

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