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Do tryouts for the 100m team involve benchpressing? Nope.
by gaius 8y ago
Do tryouts for the 100m team involve benchpressing? Nope.
- otras 8y agoInterestingly, the American Football NFL Scouting Combine, which can be thought of as roughly a tryout for the NFL draft, involves a test in which athletes must benchpress a set amount of weight (225lbs == ~102kg) as many times as possible [0]. Whether or not this is a good test for athleticism and performance in the NFL is very much debatable, but it is one area in which they're evaluated. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL_Scouting_Combine#Bench_press_records https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL_Scouting_Combine#Bench_pre...
- gaius 8y agoProbably a reasonable test in a sport that requires a lot of pushing. Same reason the military like press-ups.