One-Arm Medicine Ball Slam

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One-Arm Medicine Ball Slam — start position
Start
One-Arm Medicine Ball Slam — finish position
Finish
Muscles worked
PrimaryAbs
SecondaryLats, Shoulders

How to do it

  1. 01

    Start in a standing position with a staggered, athletic stance. Hold a medicine ball in one hand, on the same side as your back leg. This will be your starting position.

  2. 02

    Begin by winding the arm, raising the medicine ball above your head. As you do so, extend through the hips, knees, and ankles to load up for the slam.

  3. 03

    At peak extension, flex the shoulders, spine, and hips to throw the ball hard into the ground directly in front of you.

  4. 04

    Catch the ball on the bounce and continue for the desired number of repetitions.

In the app

One-Arm Medicine Ball Slam appears when you own a medicine ball and the day's window has room for it. Its minutes come from Rule 2 (Sessions are built to fit, never guaranteed, graded product): the window sets how long it runs, never the other way round.

If a machine is taken the engine swaps a same-pattern movement and says why.

If you don't have a medicine ball

Same movement pattern, same primary muscles — swap by what you have.

With other
With bodyweight
With machine
With cable

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