puhekieltä An exercise preformed by pressing the weight of a barbell away from one's body while lying on a bench.
1974, Charles Gaines & George Butler, Pumping Iron: The Art and Sport of Bodybuilding, page 18.
...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)(..)
puhekieltä To press the weight of a barbell away from one's body while lying on a bench.