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Originally Posted by Bill Hartman
Your physios are a tad behind the times. No one muscle is more important than any other. It depends on the activity in question. If you really are looking for a high level of TVA activation, the side bridge is superior with the added benefit of co-contraction of the obliques and the hip musculature.
Bird dogs are far from an advanced exercise as they are a progression. They are excellent for stimulating the spinal extensors with low spinal compression.
Bill
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I wasn't trying to give the impression of one muscle being more important than another. I'm just observing that in 10 years of back physio I have noticed a move towards more interest in the TA's. 10 years ago physios I visited were talking about Macenzie exercises and maybe some "neural stretches" and hamstrings. More recently they seem to be looking at and training the TA, amongst other muscles.
Re: Bird-dogs: clearly you know more about this than me. But my physio diagnosed weak TAs and poor TA activation and control amongst other problems and for the TAs first prescribed TA bracing with diaphramatic breathing, then the same with knee drops, then arm lifts on all fours (like BD's without the leg movement and only then onto BDs. She did this because I coudn't do the simpler one without hip movement and losing the control I had gained in the easier exercises. I simply could not to BDs to her satisfaction until recently.