Side-to-Side Medicine Ball Throws
- Primary muscles
- Obliques
- Secondary muscles
- Shoulders
- Equipment
- Medicine Ball
- Movement pattern
- None
Steps
- 1 Stand perpendicular to a sturdy wall, about two to three feet away, with your feet shoulder-width apart.
- 2 Hold a medicine ball with both hands at chest height, keeping your elbows slightly bent.
- 3 Rotate your torso away from the wall, bringing the medicine ball to the outside of your hip furthest from the wall.
- 4 Explosively rotate your torso towards the wall, throwing the medicine ball against it with force.
- 5 Catch the ball as it rebounds off the wall, absorbing the impact by slightly rotating your torso.
- 6 Immediately rotate and bring the ball to the opposite hip to prepare for the next throw.
