Overhead Slam
How to do the Overhead Slam with correct form, the muscles it works, and where it fits a training plan you actually stick to.
Lats
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Medicine Ball
How to do the Overhead Slam
- 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.
Log it, see it on your body.
Every Overhead Slam set you log feeds Ascend's anatomy heatmap — so your lats volume is visible at a glance — and counts toward your bodyweight-strength tier.
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