Sit-ups and crunches are great for targeting the rectus abdominis on the front of the stomach but they don’t recruit the deeper muscles within the core, like the transverse ... planes," Dr. Gaubert ...

Our body moves across three different planes of motion: sagittal, frontal and transverse,' says Emily Taylor, a personal ...

The halo is what exercise physiologists call a “transverse plane”—or rotational—exercise, which forces you to initiate movement and stabilize all 360 degrees of your core muscles, much as ...