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Meaning of bench press | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
/ˈbɛntʃ.pɹɛs/

Definitions

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

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Examples

“...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)[…]”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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