The classic bench press is one of the disciplines of powerlifting and is popular among students. There is a growing interest among researchers in using its capabilities for the physical improvement of students in the process of implementing the discipline “Elective courses in physical culture and sports.” The need to ensure an effective process of strength training in this direction, as well as the implementation of the discipline program, requires the preparation of a fund of assessment tools, including assessing the level of strength preparedness. For the development and application of a differentiated assessment system, the problem of studying the level of strength preparedness of modern students, taking into account weight categories, becomes relevant. The results of the strength preparedness of 134 male students in the classic bench press in different weight categories separately, from the category up to 53 kg to 120 kg, are presented. During an elective course in physical education and sports, they studied during one semester. The average results of the development of maximum strength in the classic bench press rise with the increase of the weight category of students from 53 kg to 83 kg and amount to 35±11.8 kg and 65±12.5 kg, respectively. In the weight categories up to 93 kg, up to 105 kg and up to 120 kg, the average results do not tend to rise as the weight category increases, they are slightly reduced and vary from 58.8±10.6 kg in the category up to 93 kg and up to 64, 5±18.2 kg in the category up to 105 kg. Regarding the draft norms of physical strength in the classic bench press, the strength preparedness of about 21% of students corresponds to the level of rank qualification in the range from the third youth rank to the third rank. The obtained data on the state of strength preparedness of young men in the classic bench press for each weight category separately provides accumulated empirical material for the development of a differentiated assessment system and allows us to study the further dynamics of the development of strength preparedness
students, elective courses in physical culture and sports, bench press, initial strength preparedness, results by weight categories
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