bench press meaning: definition, quotations

bench press

nounalso spelled bench-press

/ˈbɛntʃ.pɹɛs/

Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports, Weightlifting An exercise performed by pressing the weight of a barbell away from one's body while lying on a bench.

...Nubret has pushed and pulled maniacally at iron while sustaining a diet that would explode an ordinary metabolism—doing for that renowned chest, for instance, forty sets of twenty benchpresses (pushing 210 pounds off his chest a total of eight hundred times every other day)[…]1974, Charles Gaines, George Butler, Pumping Iron: The Art and Sport of Bodybuilding, page 18:

verb

Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports, Weightlifting To press the weight of a barbell away from one's body while lying on a bench.

I went home and bench pressed 30 pounds more than I had ever done before.1988, Frederick C. Hatfield, “Powersource: Ties that bind”, in Ironman, 47 (6): 21:
And I’m definitely getting stronger. I can now bench press — oh — at least 10 kilos without my arms collapsing underneath me.2017 November 16, Jo Ellison, “Help: the gym has turned us into slobs”, in Financial Times:

verb

Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports, Weightlifting To press the weight of a barbell away from one's body while lying on a bench.

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