incline bench press
- noun
- Specialized
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press de banca inclinado
- The trainer suggested that I improve my form on the incline bench press to better target my upper chest muscles.
Examples
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For the chest, I do three sets of twenty reps of incline-bench presses.
Fiction book (2000) -
And then when I get to the gym, I do four sets of pull ups alternated with incline bench press, alternated with standing curls.
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To build upper body strength, I include three sets of twelve reps of incline bench press in my workout routine.
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Every Saturday, I focus on my upper chest by doing incline bench presses with dumbbells.
How Inclined
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly built from the constituents: 'incline' describes the bench's angle, 'bench' names the piece of equipment, and 'press' denotes pushing/lifting a weight. A learner who knows these words can infer this is the form of the bench press done on a sloped bench, so the composition is immediately comprehensible.
Etymology
The exercise incline bench press comes from a simple picture: a bench set at an incline, tilted up, where you press weights away from your chest. So the name describes the action of lying on a tilted bench and pushing weights up to work the 'upper chest'.