gallery_title: "Bench Press"
gallery_image: "/Applications/images/BenchPress.webp"

(sphx_glr_auto_examples_Sports_plot_BenchPress.py)=
(example_benchpress)=

Bench Press

{sidebar} **Example** <img src="/Applications/images/BenchPress.webp" width="70%" align="center">

A full-body model doing push-ups with assumed drivers.

:::{seealso}
Main file location in AMMR:

{menuselection}Application --> Examples --> BenchPress --> BenchPress.Main.any
:::

The model of a bench press exercise is developed from the free posture model.
The bench is simulated by reaction forces between the head, thorax, pelvis,
feet and the ground.