About Lesson
The Foundational Movement Elements list should be used as an additional guide to help you create balanced and complete FitLot circuit training sessions. While it isn’t necessary to include all elements in every session, over time, each element should be integrated. In addition, there may be other movement concepts that individual trainers would like to incorporate with various groups.
- Sagittal Plane:
- Frontal Plane:
- Transverse Plane/Rotation:
- Forward flexion:
- Back extension:
- Lateral Flexion:
- Multi-joint/Compound: Exercises involving more than one muscle group and more than one joint
- Ground to standing: A movement that takes one from the ground to a standing position
- Body weight only: Exercises incorporating no external load
- Bracing: Exercises requiring stabilization of the spine and torso
- Balance/Stability: Movement drills requiring body control
- Unilateral: Single leg or single arm movements
- Bilateral: Movements involving both sides of the body, arms and legs