One more follow-up here, I finished the SFL cert weekend and all the rest went well. I learned so much!!! Fantastic location, nice small group, top notch instruction from Doc Hartle, and an SFL manual chock full of gold. I have so much more confidence in the lifts now, and have added a few to the repertoire: front squat, zercher squat, and good morning. And of course now I know how to bench press properly. I'll be working on this one.
My prep did serve me well today, as I passed the three technique tests solidly: 5 back squats at 125 lb, 5 MP at 85 lb, and 5 deadlifts at 170 lb. The presses I attribute to the PTTP cycle for sure. So there's a win, relative to this thread! That is quite a hard standard to meet; in fact, 2 of the 4 women there missed the military presses. Testing is hard at the end of a VERY challenging weekend of a lot of lifting. Other than that everyone did really well. We were a good team.
We covered a LOT of programming, and I was really glad to have tried PTTP in addition to 5/3/1 before going. It gave me valuable experience with different ways to go about progression, and all the programming information made a lot more sense to me than if I hadn't done these two programs.
Anyway thanks again everyone for your inputs here on this thread, you helped me towards a very successful weekend!