Overhead Slam
Works the lats.
- Primary muscles
- Lats
- Equipment
- Medicine ball
- Level
- Beginner
- Mechanic
- Compound
- Force
- Pull
How to do 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.
Track it
Log every set in Pensum. It keeps your best sets and estimates your one-rep max as you go. Estimate your 1RM now.
More Lats exercises
- Catch and Overhead Throw Medicine ball