10/11/2025
🌎 Athletes, hold up, do not miss this information!!!
"Sticking to bodybuilding splits is like a musician only practicing one note 🎶"
Your body is free to move in 3⃣ dimensions
To understand this, sports scientists use three imaginary "planes" to describe how we move
1⃣ Sagittal Plane
⏭️ This plane slices your body into left and right halves.
⏭️ Movements: All forward and backward motion. Think of it as the "athlete plane" for straight-line speed.
2⃣ Frontal Plane
⏭️ This plane slices your body into front and back halves.
⏭️ Movements: All side-to-side motions. This is your "agility" and "stability" plane.
3⃣ Transverse Plane
⏭️ This plane slices your body into top and bottom halves.
⏭️ Movements: All rotational or twisting motion. This is the power plane!
⏭️ Common Exercises: Swinging a bat/golf club, throwing a ball, medicine ball twists, Russian twists.
⚙️ Your Axes of Rotation
For every plane of movement, there's an axis it rotates around—like a wheel spinning on an axle.
1⃣ Sagittal Plane rotates around the Frontal Axis (or Medial-Lateral).
2⃣ Frontal Plane rotates around the Sagittal Axis (or Anterior-Posterior).
3⃣ Transverse Plane rotates around the Vertical Axis (or Longitudinal).
🌎 Why Athletes MUST Train in 3D
1⃣ Sports Aren't Lived in a Straight Line
Sports are about integration, making muscles work together.
2⃣ Power is Rotational ; Almost all powerful athletic movements. This is your transverse plane, and it's the most-ignored and most-important plane for power.
3⃣ It's Your Best Defense Against Injury
Where do most non-contact injuries happen?
* An ACL tears when an athlete plants (sagittal) and cuts (frontal/transverse) simultaneously.
Some Reading 🔽
ACSM Journals Homepage: This is the main hub for all ACSM publications.
Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise® (MSSE): This is ACSM's flagship monthly journal, featuring original, in-depth research.