P-funk said:
Cool, thanks.
I see your point, but when I do activation work I usually progress from the easiest of movements to harder ones. One glute activation exercise I've begun to do, for example, is a kneeling squat with my bodyweight. I just focus on extending only the hips and maintaining the degree of spinal extension throughout the movement. Then I might do some glute bridges. Then maybe some uni glute bridges on a med ball with my inactive thigh pulled tight to my body. I feel like getting some blood flowing to the muscles a little bit before doing the dynamic flexibility work would be a good idea, although it really probably doesn't matter all that much in the end.
When dealing with clients, I understand what you mean, but I was more intending to use this information in the context of my own workouts. There are lots of deconditioned people that can barely do exercises that I take for grantite. I'm learning this more; it blows my mind sometimes how bad some people can be. Thankfully they usually give those people to the couple of guys that have rehabilitation experience, and the clients I get are usually in halfway decent shape.
Actually, I almost crave getting someone in really bad shape. Program design would be more of a challenge. I do have a client with spinal stenosis, but as far as I can tell there isn't much one can do to improve on that situation through exercise because no exercise is going to increase the diameter of here vertebral canals, heh.
Amongst other bratty things.
... I just had one for my b-day last night 
