Shoulders · Medicine Ball · Compound · Beginner
Standing Two-Arm Overhead Throw
PrimarySecondary
- Main muscles
- Shoulders
- Also working
- Chest, Lats
How to do it
- Stand with your feet shoulder width apart holding a medicine ball in both hands. To begin, reach the medicine ball deep behind your head as you bend the knees slightly and lean back.
- Violently throw the ball forward, flexing at the hip and using your whole body to complete the movement.
- The medicine ball can be thrown to a partner or to a wall, receiving it as it bounces back.
Swaps on other equipment
Each has the shoulders as its main muscle and is also a pull, on a different piece of equipment.
Other shoulder exercises
- Standing Military Press · Barbell
- Standing Palm-In One-Arm Dumbbell Press · Dumbbell
- Standing Palms-In Dumbbell Press · Dumbbell
- Straight Raises on Incline Bench · Barbell
- Two-Arm Kettlebell Clean · Kettlebell
- Two-Arm Kettlebell Jerk · Kettlebell
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