It seems that an insanely audacious goal of a lot of people is to benchpress over four plates. The hilarity is that it is extremely easy to do as you do it off the floor, and with the weight suspended above you on the power rack.
What is the point of benchpress anyways?
The hilarity is that the bench press might be one of the most useless exercises out there. Why? There is no real situation in which you were lying on your back, and somehow you have to push a massive rock away from you.
More realistic things include picking up a heavy ass rock off the floor, and then throwing it out your enemy, in order to kill them. If you read the Iliad, this is how a lot of ancient Greek heroes would combat.
Why floor bench press?
Many reasons. The first one is you could just lift heavier weights. I think 90% of weight lifting is all about augmenting your ego, so isn’t this a good thing?
Super easy — do it off the power rack and pins and do it off the floor, and crazy arched back!