Strength exercise

Medicine Ball Overhead Throw

How to do it

  1. Stand with feet shoulder width apart holding a medicine ball with both hands in front of your hips.
  2. Brace your core and bend your knees slightly to load your legs before the throw.
  3. Drive up through your legs and raise the ball overhead, extending your arms fully behind your head.
  4. Throw the ball forward and down explosively, engaging the latissimus dorsi and biceps as your arms whip through the release.
  5. Exhale sharply on the release and follow through with your arms toward the target.
  6. Reset your stance and retrieve the ball before starting the next throw; avoid rounding your lower back as you load the overhead position.

Muscles worked

Latissimus DorsiLarge back muscle responsible for shoulder extension, adduction, and internal rotation. All Latissimus Dorsi exercises
BicepsMuscles located in the upper arm, primarily responsible for flexing the elbow. All Biceps exercises

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Type
Strength
Equipment
Medicine Ball
Primary muscles
Latissimus Dorsi, Biceps
Measured in
Reps and weight
Tools
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