Referred to as, incline bench press.

On a recent evening, Eve Bonham, a legal secretary, was ready to work her pectorals on an inclined bench press machine.

There are two variations on the bench press - the incline bench press and the decline bench press.

The incline bench press puts more emphasis on upper pec development and the decline bench press gives more low pec development.

After twenty minutes of an absolutely blistering workout, finally something gave way in his left shoulder during an incline bench press, and he was forced to toss a seventy-pound dumbbell aside in pain.

He then moves on to a gym workout - dips, incline bench presses, and so on, all executed on gleaming equipment against a menacing backdrop of corrugated iron, a chain-link fence and 55-gallon drums.