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ABSTRACT BACKGROUND The powerful performance exhibited by the athletes involved in overhead sports, depends on the athlete's endurance and the strength of upper limb musculature. Ballistic Six involves plyometric exercises to improve upper extremity strength and muscle performance requiring a pre-stretch of the involved shoulder musculature, which activates the stretch-shortening cycle. The ballistic six exercises consisting of eccentric, amortization and concentric phases of stretch-shortening cycle was created after analysing the biomechanics and physiology behind a throwing action by the athletes. This study aims to evaluate the current research to examine the effectiveness of Ballistic six plyometric exercises in improvement of shoulder muscle strength, endurance and performance in overhead athletes. METHODS: The search engines such as Google scholar, PubMed and Cochrane library, were searched. There were no restrictions on the data applied to review articles. Data were sort by title, study design, outcome measure, results and were arranged in sequential order. RESULTS Amongst the 10 articles, 3 articles showed that ballistic six exercises when combined with off season training is more effective than off season training alone. In 4 studies, only ballistic six exercises were given and did not have the control group. 1 study showed that ballistic six plyometric training when combined with traditional warm-up and dynamic exercises is effective than traditional warm-up alone. 2 studies showed that ballistic six plyometric training is more effective when compared with techniques like free weights and theraband exercises. CONCLUSION This literature review analysed the effects of Ballistic six plyometric exercises in overhead athletes. The wide range of reviews used to demonstrate that Ballistic Six Plyometric Exercises can be a choice of protocol to improve performance in overhead athletes and it significantly important to have evidences based on these exercises. The suggestions given in this study will help us to determine the efficacy of Ballistic six plyometric exercises to improve performance in overhead athletes. ABBREVIATIONS: Not Applicable