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Pick All Planes: Enhance Your Training with Multidirectional Exercises

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Take a second to think about fitness. Two things that commonly come to mind are strength and endurance, but how often do you consider the directions and mechanics in which your body moves? Life isn’t just forward to backward; there’s bending, twisting, reaching, and shifting. If your workouts don’t challenge your body in these multiple planar motions, you may be missing out on a greater performance, injury prevention, and more comfortable, efficient movement. Let’s take a closer look at why training in all directions is essential for a strong and resilient body.

Injury Free

Most movements in real life and sports are dynamic so they rarely ever happen in a straight line. Focusing only on forward to back or up to down exercises can leave your body vulnerable when you have to twist, pivot, or reach unexpectedly. It’s a compromise of overall wellness that needs to also be treated to be as healthy as can be. Many knee injuries occur because athletes lack stability and strength in the frontal (side to side) or transverse (rotational) planes; and that’s only one example. Training in all planes helps build resilience by strengthening the stabilizer muscles, improving balance, and enhancing joint mobility, making you less prone to injury.

Powerful Movement

To generate power calls for actions involved in a complex transfer of energy through multiple planes of motion. If your training neglects the transverse plane, you’re missing out on developing rotational power and efficiency. If you’re an athlete that needs to hit or throw a ball, this is a must. Exercises incorporating rotational or lateral movement train your body to produce and control those forces from different angles, translating into smoother, more powerful movements in sports and daily activities. Training in this way also improves core stability which usually gets neglected. The core isn’t there just to look pretty, it’s the foundation of all other movements.

Reduced Day to Day Fatigue

Life’s daily demands are is constantly shifting between planes of motion. The simple movements of walking, lifting, bending, or reaching require a strong foundation. Ignoring this will probably lead to more muscle imbalances and inefficiencies that can make day to day movement harder. By not just strengthening but mobilizing muscles across all planes, your body will guaranteed move more synergistically, reducing unnecessary strain and fatigue. Stability and balance trained in the multiple planes is like medicine to your body. Even if injuries come, they’re easier to come back from and the fatigue of it all is greatly reduced. Just add some multidirectional variety to your training into your routine. Your fitness is a dynamic process where every angle and motion matters. By focusing on all planes of motion, you’ll not only improve your performance and injury resilience but also boost your daily movement quality and overall vitality.

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Written by:

Dan Aquino

BS, ASFA-CPT

 

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