Human overhead squats take all the demanding core and shoulder elements of traditional barbell overhead squats, but trade predictable metal for a squirming, uneven, hard-to-stabilize human.
The benefits of doing any kind of overhead squats are numerous.
They help you develop amazing shoulder stability and midline stabilization, which carries over to all kinds of other athletic pursuits.
They do this by punishing squat weakness and and stability issues. If you can keep the weight perfectly still overhead, you'll have no problems holding it. But because you're moving around and compensating, the weight rocks, which can send it crashing to the ground if you're not capable of compensating.
But human overhead squats take things to the next level. Even with the most stable partner, her weight will be unevenly distributed between your hands, and she'll rock as you move.
In this video I show you how to get into a human overhead squat, and how to do one.
