By that I mean, when my bench is/was its highest, I am/was more likely at my peak sprint performance, but that doesn’t mean the bench press was in any way causing this to happen (it more likely happened because I deloaded my weights overall).
Now I understand what you mean.
This is fairly objective: what is your projected max on bench and what is your current best sprint performance? The max on bench is going to be relative due to technique and such, but it’s as simple as that.
I do sometimes bench press just for fun but not for getting faster, I bench only 100kg. As a teenager I was trained for middle distances, so there wasn’t much place for fast running and developing such a biomotor abilities wich would help making me more explosive and faster. My 400m PB was 52.16 and since 20 years of age I wanted to focus just for this event no more 800m or 1500m, so after couple of seasons I ran under 48sec (47.95sec). My top speed is low – 30m flying 3.03, but I remember tested it when I was at the age of 18, so I ran 3.30sec. What else I could expect when I ran 30m flying in 3.30sec at the age of 18? Of course nothing special.
The point of me mentioning that is that lifts on their own have nearly 0 relation to how fast you’re going to run. It is nice to think that an increase in a certain lift is going to translate to performance on the track, but it almost never works out that way.
If you think that it has 0 relation to how fast you are going to run then why do you lift?