Look at any current popular fitness magazine or journal and you’re bound to find an article raving about the benefits of functional or “mutli-dimensional” training. Specifically, what these multi-dimensionalists are referring to is performing exercises in the frontal and transverse planes in preference to the typical gym exercises performed in the sagittal plane. To make sure we’re all on the same page, let’s have a quick review over what these specific planes are and how they are defined.

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