Any weight you can overhead press, you can safely lower slowly to the ground.
In theory. In practice (especially with beginners) you lose your balance or you get a sudden pain or something else happens—and you would just throw the barbell on the floor.
if your floor isn’t built to withstand 150lbs of force
Force isn’t measured in pounds. What matters is momentum and contact surface. Drop your 300 lbs barbell even from hip height onto a wooden floor and it will leave dents.
How can that not be a fundamental movement?
Maybe we have a different idea of what “fundamental” means :-)
I am not arguing that weightlifting doesn’t develop muscles or that muscle strength isn’t useful. I just don’t see why, say, climbing a tree is less “fundamental” than taking, essentially, a very heavy stick and raising it over your head.
In theory. In practice (especially with beginners) you lose your balance or you get a sudden pain or something else happens—and you would just throw the barbell on the floor.
Force isn’t measured in pounds. What matters is momentum and contact surface. Drop your 300 lbs barbell even from hip height onto a wooden floor and it will leave dents.
Maybe we have a different idea of what “fundamental” means :-)
I am not arguing that weightlifting doesn’t develop muscles or that muscle strength isn’t useful. I just don’t see why, say, climbing a tree is less “fundamental” than taking, essentially, a very heavy stick and raising it over your head.