Busy lawyers spend the bulk of their days sitting at their desks, in court, on planes or in cars. Even the most disciplined can struggle finding enough time to stretch, do cardio and lift weights—all of which we know improve mobility, reduce pain and improve brain performance, not to mention improve the way we look and feel.

When they do find time to move, they often don't realize their exercises are keeping them exclusively in one "plane of motion." Most lawyers need more planes of motion training in their workouts. But what does that mean? 

 Your body is multidimensional. It's designed to move in 3D. Just like the law has lots of fancy words to describe concepts, so do kinesiologists who study human movement. Those smart folks have taught us that our bodies are designed to move in three planes of motion: sagittal (front to back like in a squat, bicep curl or running in a straight line); frontal (side to side like in a lateral lunge or side cable raise); and transverse (rotationally like in a "curtsy" lunge or a bicycle crunch). Most of us live almost exclusively in the sagittal plane, such as sitting and walking, which limits our functional mobility, strength and performance and can lead to aches and pains.