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  1. Jul 3, 2024 · Repetitiously slamming a ball over and over is taxing on the muscles and your cardiovascular system. Do a few hard rounds of medicine ball slams each week, and better conditioning is all but...

  2. Jun 28, 2023 · Medicine ball slams require a coordinated effort between your upper and lower body to maintain the flow of the exercise. This exercise requires your core muscles—including your glutes, abdominals, low back, spinal erectors, and even your rotator cuffs—to work together to power the movement.

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    • Trains for Movement. One of the things that I love about ball slams is that they engage your entire body through a full range of motion. It’s not just your arms or legs pumping to focus on one small muscle or muscle group, but it’s your entire body moving together.
    • Builds Explosive Power. What is explosive power, really? One expert defines it as, “the capacity of the athlete to exert his max force or power output in a rapid /explosive amount of time.”
    • Hammers Your Core. I love any upper and/or lower body exercise that also engages the core. After all, it’s the abs, obliques, and spinal erector muscles that stabilize the spine and keep the upper and lower halves of your body steady and moving in sync.
    • Serious Calorie-Burning. Anyone who has done a few sets of ball slams will know exactly what I mean when I say that this exercise is game-changing for burning calories.
    • Standing Overhead Slam. This is the most commonly used of the slam ball exercises, so it makes sense to include it as the first exercise on our list.
    • Slam Ball Snatch. The snatch is a classic bodybuilding exercise that involves lifting a heavy weight from the floor, across the front of your body, and up over your head.
    • Squat Throw. This exercise focuses largely on your legs, but adds a bit of upper body work, too, so you can get those arms and shoulders pumping.
    • Scoop Overhead Throw. This exercise focuses not on slamming the ball onto the ground, but throwing it high over your head. This activates both the push and pull muscles through both the throwing and catching movement.
    • Wall Balls. Like the standard medicine wall ball, only extra challenging! Where the medicine ball bounces back off the wall into your arms, the slam ball creates more of a dead weight effect.
    • Side Throws. Side throws will have you throwing the ball against the wall, side-on. I love the fact that this exercise works your left and right sides equally!
    • Slams. Ok, so this is one of few exercises that sees you slamming the ball on the floor! The good old faithful ball slam. This exercise will get your heart rate pumping and allow you to let off any steam you may have accumulated during your day!
    • Russian Twists. One of my favorite core exercises of all time! I love the deep burn on the sides that this exercise creates. It’s going to get your heart pumping too!
  3. Aug 11, 2024 · Muscles Worked. The primary muscles working during medicine ball slams include your core, deltoids, triceps, lats, glutes, and hamstrings. The secondary muscles working are your quads, calves, traps, rhomboids, and forearm muscles.

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  5. The ball slam is an excellent compound exercise that will work out a variety of muscles and raise your heart rate at the same time. As a bonus, you get to release some stress by slamming a ball as hard as possible into the ground.