bench press
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bench press
- /ˈbɛntʃˌpɹɛs/
noun bench presses · benchpress
- 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)[…]
verb bench presses · bench pressing · bench pressed · benchpress
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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.
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noun exercise
| Español | banco de prensa, prensa de banco, press de banco, press de banca |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 벤치 프레스 benchi peureseu |
| 日本語 | ベンチプレス benchi puresu |
| 中文 | 臥推 /卧推 wòtuī |
| Português | supino |
| Français | développé couché |
| Deutsch | Bankdrücken |
| Italiano | panca piana |
| Русский | жим лёжа žim ljóža |
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