Electromyographic and kinematic evaluation of bench press exercise: a case report study on athletes with different impairments and expertise

Abstract Purpose With an increase in the number of adapted sports, need to monitor sports performance people with different abilities has grown. Indeed, a thorough evaluation gesture could prevent occurrence injuries, enable continuous assessment, and allow verify compliance requirements for competitions. Gesture kinematics provides assessment performance, while muscle activities reveal underlying strategies adopted by each athlete. In this context, we propose instrumented assess Para-powerlifting. Our goal is define test setup protocol quantitatively execution bench press exercise athletes abilities. Methods We recruited unimpaired athlete three Paralympic athletes. They were requested execute recorded activity kinematic data from upper body. investigated sport extracting parameters describing coordination, symmetry, synchronism between arms, motor variability repeating gesture. Results performed gestures higher coordination arms low across repetitions compared athlete, who was not at Olympic level. All participants obtained similar adopting strategies. Conclusions This study proof concept that proposed here can conduct complete exercise, terms kinematics,