the slight return of shoulder flexibility

I can now just barely do kettlebell around-the-worlds the proper way. This involves swinging the kettlebell around your body, passing the kettlebell behind you to make a circle—first in one direction, then in the other. I'm currently doing a short set of 30: 15 one way, 15 the other. As with heavy clubs, kettlebell exercises develop core strength, which is no BS as I found out during my walk last year, when I was able to rise somewhat easily off a flat bench, like a normal person, after taking a nap. Quite a contrast from my past flopping and flailing and gasping as I would try to right myself from a prone position.

The core exercises I've chosen to do take into account my frozen shoulder (which seems finally to be entering the "thaw" phase). I can't do the McGill Big Three despite having tried it at the beginning of my campaign last year. Instead, I do kettlebell around-the-worlds, kettlebell swings, even (10 kg/10 kg) and uneven (20 kg/10 kg) farmer's carries, heavy-club inside and outside circles, heavy-club front presses and pullovers, wall planks, wall pushups, hollow-body holds, and dead bugs. It's still going to be a while before I can graduate to real bodyweight calisthenics. I'd eventually like to be able to do real pushups, burpees, Hindu pushups, full hangs, pullups, L-sits, etc. Planches and muscle-ups seem way beyond anything I can do now (which is nothing), so I won't consider those until much, much later.

But as I said at the beginning, the good news is that I can now do proper around-the-worlds. That's a sign that things are finally improving on the shoulder front.