Overhead Slam
beginnerplyometricspullcompound


- Body part
- Back
- Target
- Lats
- Equipment
- Medicine Ball
Instructions
- 1Hold a medine ball with both hands and stand with your feet at shoulder width. This will be your starting position.
- 2Initiate the countermovement by raising the ball above your head and fully extending your body.
- 3Reverse the motion, slamming the ball into the ground directly in front of you as hard as you can.
- 4Receive the ball with both hands on the bounce and repeat the movement.
Get this via the API
This exercise — and the full catalog of 873 — as structured JSON.
curl -H "X-API-Key: wk_live_…" \
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- taxonomy slug
- category
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- difficulty
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- force
- push · pull · static
- mechanic
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- q
- free-text search (accent-insensitive)
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- limit / offset / cursor
- pagination (limit ≤ plan cap)
- lang
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Authentication
Send your key as X-API-Key or Authorization: Bearer.
Response
Always { data, meta, requestId }. Rate-limit & quota counts ride in X-RateLimit-* / X-Quota-* headers.
Plans
Free: 5k req/mo · 30/min · 480p. Pro: 100k/mo · 120/min · 720p + commercial use.
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