"Declan Murphy" <declan_murphy@hotmail.com> wrote ...
> I don't understand what 
> the phrase "how much you bench" means anyway. Like "going postal" and 
> "get bent", I assume its just another merkinism I'm not familiar with.

If every phrase you don't know is an merkinism - what about 
"many a mickle makes a muckle" ?

As for 'how much you bench' it's a term from gym / weightlifting.