Planes and Axis

Question 1

Whats a plane?

Answer 1

Planes divide the human body into sections, there are 3 planes of motion in the body.

Question 2

Whats a sagittal plane?

Answer 2

The sagittal plane divides the body from top to bottom, (vertically), resulting in a left side and a right side.

Question 3

Whats a frontal plane?

Answer 3

The frontal plane also divides the body from top to bottom, (vertically), but front and back sections.

Question 4

Whats a transverse plane?

Answer 4

The transverse plane divides the body across the middle (horizontally) giving a top section (also known as ‘superior)and a bottom section (‘inferior’).

Question 5

Whats a axis?

Answer 5

An imaginary straight line around which something turns.

Question 6

Whats the frontal axis?

Answer 6

Imaginary line passing horizontally through the body from left to right, allows rotation.

Question 7

Whats the vertical axis?

Answer 7

Imaginary line passing vertically through the body, allows rotation of the body in a upright position.

Question 8

Whats sagittal axis ?

Answer 8

Imaginary line passing horizontally through the body from front to back, allows flexion and extension.

Question 9

What plane and axis would a gymnast be working when doing a basic sort of somersault?

Answer 9

They would be working in the sagittal plane around the frontal axis.

Question 10

What plane and axis are used when doing a cartwheel?

Answer 10

A cartwheel is done on a frontal plane around a sagittal axis.