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)[…]
2006, James Stoppani, Encyclopedia of Muscle & Strength, page 149
To many people, strength is all about the bench press. Rarely does a heavily muscled athlete field the question “How much can you squat?”
2010, Adam Garett, "Fried Hams", Reps!17:23
You'd never dream of doing just bench presses to build a massive chest, or only lateral raises to build up your shoulders, so you'll surely limit your overall leg development if you restrict your hamstring training to leg curls.
Verb: (weightlifting) to press the weight of a barbell away from one's body while lying on a bench[edit]