BenchPress.md

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

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