Exercise guide

Standing Two-Arm Overhead Throw

CategoryPlyometrics EquipmentMedicine Ball ForcePull MechanicCompound LevelBeginner

How to do the Standing Two-Arm Overhead Throw: step-by-step instructions, muscles worked (Shoulders), and equipment. Log it in Vantora.

How to perform the Standing Two-Arm Overhead Throw exercise

How to do the Standing Two-Arm Overhead Throw

  1. 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.
  2. Violently throw the ball forward, flexing at the hip and using your whole body to complete the movement.
  3. The medicine ball can be thrown to a partner or to a wall, receiving it as it bounces back.

Muscles worked

shoulders chest lats

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