How to Do the Overhead Slam
💪 Lats🏋️ Medicine Ball📊 Beginner🏷️ Plyometrics
How to perform it
- Hold a medine ball with both hands and stand with your feet at shoulder width. This will be your starting position.
- Initiate the countermovement by raising the ball above your head and fully extending your body.
- Reverse the motion, slamming the ball into the ground directly in front of you as hard as you can.
- Receive the ball with both hands on the bounce and repeat the movement.
Muscles worked
The Overhead Slam primarily targets your Lats. You'll need medicine ball.
Make it count toward your goal
Random sets rarely move the needle. In NYUS, the Overhead Slam slots into a plan built for your goal — sets, reps and progression auto-suggested, logged in two taps, and folded into a weekly review that adapts what comes next.