There is something truly primal about lifting a weight above your head. It's as if our own primitive, caveman-like selves are awakened by practicing the overhead lifts.
The Military Press has a particularly unusual ability to make us feel stronger just by merely practicing the lift. Friend and fellow kettlebell instructor, Daniel Byrnes, said it quite well one day while we were discussing our heavy single arm press. Speaking like a true cave man, he uttered, "This is my rock. I must lift rock to highest place. Important to lift rock. Always. I will be strongest self."
And really,...