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Medicine-Ball Chest Pass

Compound exercise using medicine ball.
Difficulty
Beginner
Equipment
Medicine ball
Mechanics
Compound
Sides
Bilateral
Main plane
Multiplanar

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How to do the Medicine-Ball Chest Pass

Not yet reviewed — the technique guide for this exercise hasn't been signed off, so it isn't published here yet.

Muscles worked

Primary

Secondary

How the knowledge graph models this movement

Each joint action, with the role and emphasis the graph assigns each muscle. These are qualitative anatomical labels, not measured muscle activation.

  • Shoulder horizontal adductionprimary action

    Pectoralis major (prime mover, high emphasis); Pectoralis major (prime mover, moderate emphasis); Anterior deltoid (synergist, moderate emphasis)

  • Elbow extensionprimary action

    Triceps brachii (prime mover, high emphasis)

  • Scapula protractionsecondary action

    Serratus anterior (prime mover, moderate emphasis); Pectoralis minor (synergist, low emphasis)

  • Spine extensionsecondary action · resisted

    Rectus abdominis (stabilizer, moderate emphasis); Transverse abdominis (stabilizer, moderate emphasis); External oblique (stabilizer, low emphasis)

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