ANATOMICAL ASSESSMENT
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In the field of anatomy, there are many international agreements about the names and movements of the human body to ensure that everyone understands each other and speaks the same ‘language’. Anatomical posture is such an agreement about the ideal posture of the human body when a person is standing upright.
As a Pro Personal Trainer, we create a first image of the customer: his/her anatomical structure, how the customer moves, … this gives us a first indication as to how to continue, what to pay attention to, how to make adjustments …
Lordosis, kyphosis, C- and S-scoliosis, X- or 0-knees, head position, foot position, … the anatomical assessment of a customer indicates in which direction we are going to steer the training, how to build it, what choices of exercises …
A Pro Personal Trainer is trained and immediately sees an anatomical image, then he/she examines the medical background, any not yet identified complaints, …
The characteristics of anatomical posture are:
Position standing upright and looking straight ahead
Feet pointing straight forward
Knees slightly bent and not ‘locked’
Arms hanging along the body
Palms facing forward
Which are the 7 Anatomical Checkpoints:
- Feet at hip/shoulder width and pointing parallel towards the front.
- Knees slightly bent, not locked, and pointing parallel towards the front.
- Pelvis and back neutral.
- Shoulders slightly back and slightly down.
- Make neck long.
- Contract the abdominal muscles (thirty percent)
- Contract your buttocks (thirty percent)
What are the axes in the body?
In order to be able to indicate the movements of the human body, we have defined 3 different body axes along which movements run. If you can distinguish the 3 body axes from each other, you can indicate along which body axis a movement or exercise runs. As a Personal Trainer you can put together a varied training programme with this information.
The body axes are called the frontal, sagittal and longitudinal axes. Below I have listed the properties of each:
The Frontal or Transverse Axis
The frontal axis of the human body runs from left to right in the middle of your body. Like a stick from left to right through your hip joint, which is then the frontal or transverse axis.
The movements that use the frontal axis are flexion and extension and retroflexion and anteflexion. Hold the stick from the left to the right through the centre of your body and you will see that the movements are forward and backward.
Movements around the frontal axis correspond to movements in the sagittal plane.
The Sagittal Axis
The sagittal axis runs from front to back. Run an imaginary stick from front to back through your waist and you have the sagittal axis.
Movements around the sagittal axis are abduction, adduction and lateral flexion, or lateral movements to the left and right. Movements around the sagittal axis correspond to movements in the frontal plane.
The Longitudinal Axis
The longitudinal axis runs from top to bottom. Insert the imaginary stick this time from above through your head downwards along your spine and you have made the longitudinal axis.
Movements around the longitudinal axis are exorotation, endorotation and torsion, or rotating movements of the body.
The human body is (thus) also divided into different planes that are not the same as the axes and along which the movements of the body run.
What are the planes of the human body?
Three different body surfaces of the body along which the movements run have been defined to be able to describe the movements of the human body. If you know exactly what the 3 body surfaces are, you can indicate along which body plane a movement runs. As a Personal Trainer you can give good instructions with this information and coordinate the different exercises so that you can train the whole body.
The body is divided into the frontal, sagittal and longitudinal planes. Below I have listed the properties of each:
The Frontal or Transverse plane
The frontal plane of the human body runs from left to right through the middle of your body. The frontal surface divides your body into a front and a back half.
The movements across the frontal plane are abduction, adduction and lateral flexion or lateral movements to the left and right.
The movements around the frontal plane correspond to the movements around the sagittal axis.
The Sagittal plane
The sagittal plane runs from front to back. The sagittal plane divides your body into a right and left half.
Think of an imaginary sheet standing in front of you in the same direction as you with the thickness of the sheet facing you. If you were to walk through it, the sheet would divide your body into a right and left half. This is a way to more easily visualise the movements around the sagittal plane.
The movements around the sagittal plane are flexion and extension and retroflexion and anteflexion. Keep the sheet in mind and then you see that movements are forward and backward.
The movements around the sagittal plane correspond to the movements of the frontal axis.
The Longitudinal plane
The longitudinal plane runs straight through your body at waist height and divides your body into an upper and lower half. Stick the imaginary sheet right through your waist from front to back and you have made the longitudinal axis.
The movements along the longitudinal plane are exorotation, endorotation and torsion, or rotating movements of the body. This corresponds to the movements around the longitudinal axis
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Roeselare – Bruges – Knokke – Kortrijk – Oostende Region
