How to do Overhead Slam

Muscles worked

Main: Lats.

Step by step

1. Hold a medine ball with both hands and stand with your feet at shoulder width. This will be your starting position.
2. Initiate the countermovement by raising the ball above your head and fully extending your body.
3. Reverse the motion, slamming the ball into the ground directly in front of you as hard as you can.
4. Receive the ball with both hands on the bounce and repeat the movement.

Similar exercises

• Catch and Overhead Throw
• Alternate Leg Diagonal Bound
• Backward Medicine Ball Throw
• Bench Jump
• Bench Sprint
• Box Jump (Multiple Response)

Instructions from Free Exercise DB, in the public domain. General guidance, not medical advice. Stop if anything hurts.