The full name of bench press is supine press. Simple and rude is lying on a bench and lifting a barbell, like this:

This fitness program mainly exercises upper body muscles such as pectoralis major, pectoralis minor, deltoid toe, triceps brachii and elbow muscle (that is, upper body strength), but these muscles are actually of little use to us ordinary people, because we are not athletes, and we don't need too developed pectoralis major muscles (mainly lifting, pulling, dragging and back) in our daily life.

Bench press is of little significance to ordinary people, but it is of great significance to athletes, especially NBA players.

Physical confrontation in basketball match is quite fierce. We can often see muscle bars in the paint area pushing and shoving each other for a backboard, and sometimes even quarreling and fighting. The test here is the player's comprehensive strength. In normal confrontation, the main stress part of the player is the body trunk, and the strength of the body trunk comes from the strength of the lower limbs and waist and abdomen, and the lower limbs can be exercised by the core muscles. These are the basic factors.

Upper limb strength is a factor (sometimes a key factor) that affects the upper limit of strength. Developed pectoralis major muscles can be used for defense, and powerful arm muscles can push away or resist opponents in physical confrontation. For example, some players are not dominant in weight and lower limb strength, but they can defend their own tonnage and strength, relying on the strength of bench press, just like Rodman can defend 2 16 O 'Neill in 2003. (The same is true of Big Ben in 2004. These two are victims of obesity. )

Bench press is very important for a basketball player, so the NBA will have this test in the rookie test, mainly to locate players as a reference for team selection (the draft is generally not too low because of its strength).

However, bench press data is not the only factor to measure the strength of players. Sometimes it is not good for players to bench press too much, because it is easy to affect the shooting accuracy (most players with too strong bench press ability can't shoot well).