Go find yourself somewhere that does classes/group work and you’ve got a much better chance of enjoying it! Might relieve you of some that sand out of those bags too 
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But are the right ones being used?
How do you use he wrong muscles? How does ‘activating’ them make you use the right ones.
You want to propel yourself forward down the road - activating the right muscles - you run! activating the wrong muscles you do repeated jumps - both propel you down the road, one of them is a lot faster for a lot less effort!
Whilst that’s obvious, the question is if there’s a different form of running that your body can “fall” into such that if you tricked the body into the right form of running by “activating” the right muscles before you started, you gain massively.
I’m not at all convinced - however people who do get injured just running do seem to get some sort of release / improvement with this activation stuff, so I’m not completely against the idea for some people.
I do not think there is much research which backs up the idea of activating muscles before using them for exercise. But then people still do static stretches so 
@pacha This was the way it was explained to me.
Where you have a weakness or reduced mobility, then the body compensates by using other muscles (either completely or relying on them more).
Maybe it’s a confusion around the term activation. Again my understanding was that certain muscles within the muscle group, as a result of being weak and ‘bypassed’ in a movement pattern e.g. running, they can then become further weakened (maybe even mild atrophy) and/or very tight to the point of being a bit useless.
Activation drills and/or strength work that isolate these muscles are therefore used to train them into a better shape as well as ‘reminding’ your body to stop ignoring them, but to utilise them.
Edit - to your last post. Maybe this is a terminology thing. I haven’t been prescribed activation stuff to do before a run. But rehab style moves (things like lunge variations) which have been designed to remind body that these other muscles exist and to make them stronger so I don’t fall back into compensatory movement patterns.
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Cool, those moves will strengthen those muscles that are weaker than you need them to be, which will help reduce their tightness. Help your brain to use them for running rather than compensating by using another muscle(s).
Get in the gym lad!
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Haha, that’s never going to happen. Just don’t have the time.
But i don’t have an excuse (other than laziness and the fact that i hate it) to not do home routines. Even 15 mins a couple of times a week!
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Just do them after your evening yoga 
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I think for many people the glutes don’t fire up as they should, I used to be one of those. At one time I couldn’t even activate my left glute, cue too much stress and overuse injury on left hammy.
Hopefully now after a little glute education, there’s far less chance of left hammy complaining due to being needlessly over worked.
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I promise I’ll do strength work every single time I finish my yoga session.
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Your glutes may have worked sub optimally but they MUST habe fired. Without them standing from seated and stairs would be almost impossible.
ETA: If some muscles don’t fire, read this:
My glutes don’t work 
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My glutes fire like a muthafcuker after a tin of beans.
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Had stitches out today, from front and back of lower leg (ouch) and from finger (double ouch)… I am such a wimp… awoke at 2 and couldn’t sleep very well after that, so terrified of the finger stitches and the bandage that was absorbed into all of the blood. I really do need to (hu)man up.
Anyway, all healing tickety boo but as wounds were so deep the nurse said no sport until review next Wed 10th… argghhhhhhhhhhhhhh, mild walking only is so RUBBISH (sorry, yes I need to calm down).
7 weeks to 1/2 tri X.
There’s always core and strength.
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Great, my shoulder has started hurting again. I havent done anything to aggravate it. Same place as before so assume the bursa is inflamed again.
Axa have cut me off and the doctor said no my injections anyway. We are swapping to Vitality so could start a whole new claim 
Guess the only other option is going to be a course of anti inflams
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Went to the pool for the first time since my RTC. The left shoulder has been sore since the hit and movement restricted in terms of reaching across to the right and and the last few degrees of extension. It hurt a bit swiming but not too bad, I thought it best just to do some easy 100m and see how I got on. After about 1500m it was quite sore and got out after 1800m as it was hurting quite a bit. I swapped the pull buouy in once it started hurting, which helped. It hasn’t made it any worse though so will ge back swimming easy tomorrow.
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A few weeks ago I developed a mystery sore foot. I noticed it getting off the turbo and thought there must have been a stone in my shoe, or a crease in my sock, or something that I’d not noticed.
It seemed to get worse, and felt a bit like when you get a spot and it’s not broken through the skin.
It continued to get worse and prevented me from running, and really walking. Cycling seemed to be OK, but I’m lazy so didn’t do much of that.
Today I noticed it’s vanished and I no longer have any excuses, other than being fat and lazy.
I mentioned this to a friend and his response was “Welcome to getting older, shit just randomly goes wrong with your body, and sometimes goes away, and sometimes doesn’t. Enjoy”.
Which was nice.
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Mrs FB had similar with a wrist. Started playing up to an extent that it hurt to grip anything. We tried all kinds of manipulation but nothing sorted it so she got an appt to see a NHS Physio who was equally befuddled by what was going on. Tried various exercises, used a wrist support etc and it kept being a pain.
Then one day the problem disappeared and has not returned.
Weird shit happens as you get older.
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I had similar. One of my toes starting hurting, i thought it was because a nail was too long and had rubbed but there was nothing there.
Then there was the time my foot started hurting because my shoe lace was too tight.
Getting old sucks. I particularly like how the body one day decides that wouldn’t if be good if the hairs up your nose grow long enough to start appearing out the bottom of your nose. Why? What do they want?
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