Mirroring these movements in your workouts will ensure you can do them safely, without the risk of injury, in real life.

Primates clearly need to climb upward in trees but relative to all other movement types, vertical climbing is not frequent relative to the traveling modes of locomotion. Among climbing primates ...

Ball and socket joints also allow types of movement called abduction, adduction, rotation and circumduction. Abduction – movement away from the midline of the body. This occurs at the hip and ...

The different types of movement that are permitted at each joint are described below. Flexion – bending a joint. This occurs when the angle of a joint decreases. For example, the elbow flexes ...