💔 Not committing 🏋️ Lifting weights

benching

1 4.1

Pushing a heavy bar while lying on a bench or the amount pushed

noun
/ˈbɛnʧɪŋ/

Jargon

: press de banca

His personal best for benching at the competition was 200 pounds.

I I did benching for the dead, for the British bed benching and deadlift.

Examples

The last one is called zorbing benching, whatever we want to call it.
I I did benching for the dead, for the British bed benching and deadlift.

Terry Stone Connection
So for example, I'll never do flat bench or or decline bench.
All right, benching builds your pecs.

Pain & Gain (2013)
He started benching heavier weights as he gained more strength in the gym.
After a few weeks of benching consistently, she was able to lift 150 pounds.

Synonyms

bench press

vsbenching

4 3.0

An exercise where a person lies on their back on a bench and pushes weight up from the chest

refers to doing the exercise or the amount of weight lifted

How Heavy

lift capacity

Specialized

1 4.5

benching

Jargon

1 4.1

light

12 7.0

Surface Forms

benching singular

benchings plural

Morphology

benching = bench (semi-transparent) = bench + ing

Formed by standard gerundation of the verb 'bench' meaning to do the bench press; usage is specialized gym jargon that may not be obvious to all learners.

Etymology

Benching comes from the exercise called the bench press, where you lie on a bench and 'press' a weight up from your chest. So benching means doing that lift or talking about how much weight you can lift.