Anatomical Terms

Question 1

What is the anterior side of your body

Answer 1

The front of your body

Question 2

What does superior mean in fitness anatomy?

Answer 2

Higher or at the top

Question 3

What does inferior mean in fitness anatomy?

Answer 3

Lower

Question 4

What does posterior mean in fitness?

Answer 4

To the back

Question 5

What does lateral mean in fitness?

Answer 5

Outside of your body

Question 6

What is transverse in fitness?

Answer 6

Straight up your body like a pole

Question 7

What does medial mean in fitness?

Answer 7

Toward the middle

Question 8

What does proximal mean?

Answer 8

Closer to

Question 9

What does distal mean in fitness?

Answer 9

Further away

Question 10

What is the sagittal plane?

Answer 10

The plane that divides the body in half in left to right halves

Question 11

What is the frontal/coronal axis?

Answer 11

The intersection of the sagittal and the frontal plane.

Question 12

What is the frontal plane?

Answer 12

The plane that divides your body front to back. Any movement where the legs or arms go side to side (adduction & abduction, growing movements, putter hip movements)

Question 13

What is the sagittal axis?

Answer 13

The axis that allows the joint to move in the frontal plane

Question 14

What is the transverse plane?

Answer 14

The plane that divides your body by top and bottom

Question 15

What is the longitudinal or vertical axis?

Answer 15

The axis that is like a pole that goes through your body that allows you to move in the transverse plane.

Question 16

Why is knowledge of the anatomical planes important to fitness coaching?

Answer 16

It helps you determine which movements are best for your clients.

Question 17

What plane is being used by a person who sits all day?

Answer 17

The sagittal plane (hip flexion/tightness)

Question 18

What types of movements would a person who sits all day need?

Answer 18

Core strength, torsal rotation, hip adduction

Question 19

What type of program is typically best for all clients

Answer 19

A well rounded workout plan that includes movements in all three anatomical plane.

Question 20

What are some common exercises in the sagittal plane?

Answer 20

All flexion and extension/hinge related movments: squats, deadlifts, curls, tricepts

Question 21

What are some common movements that are in the frontal plane?

Answer 21

Standing hip adductiona, lateral raises

Question 22

What are some common moves in the transverse plane?

Answer 22

Bench press, single isolates rear felt raises, all cable chop movements that involve twisting of the torso.

Question 23

What is joint action?

Answer 23

Anatomical movement

Question 24

What is flexion?

Answer 24

Any movement that decreases the angle between two joints

Question 25

What is extension?

Answer 25

Any movement that increases the angle between two body parts

Question 26

What is addiction?

Answer 26

Movement towards the miine

Question 27

What is abduction?

Answer 27

Movement away from the body

Question 28

What is rotation?

Answer 28

Lateral- external rotaion or away from the body

Medial- internal rotation or towards the body

Question 29

What is horizontal adduction ?

Answer 29

Movement of arm or thigh in the transverse plane from lateral to anterior potition (90 degree movement

Question 30

What is horizontal abduction?

Answer 30

Movement of of a limb in the lateral plane from an anterior to lateral position.