Me too! Prepping for SFB in April. Not easy. Abs and glutes, especially. Wow.
Yup. Interesting to me, too, that on my not-great shoulders, when I go through the mindfulness exercise of getting everything lined up before I do a pushup, and go through the pushup focused on all the right cues, I end up with shoulders that, at least for a few minutes, work better than I ever thought they would again.
I am 4 months into my 6 months after my cert, and I'm feeling on schedule. I worked on 2-leg, 1-arm pushups, very slowly, up to being able to get 3-5 reps on each arm on a 12" box - most of the last 4 months, really, and now things are improving rapidly. I switched to a 10" box a week or two ago, and I saw Master Instructor Phil Scarito a few days ago and completed a 1-arm, 2-leg pushup from the floor. I did those, plus some elevated ones, today, and I think I've laid a solid foundation. We shall see how I do ...
The other thing, which I've mentioned here before lately, is that I feel the carryover from my 1-arm pushup has been greater than for any other 1-arm press I've done before, and by a lot, so I'm excited for how this is going to help me stay strong in years to come - nice to not lose anything from my 1-arm kettlebell military press even though I'm not practicing it.
Best of luck to you with it,
@Anna C.
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