Close Grip Push Ups vs Bodyweight Push-Ups Strength Standards
Compare your close grip push ups and bodyweight push-ups against strength standards for your sex, age range, and bodyweight. Add a recent result for each exercise to review strength levels, next targets, and priority.
Enter one strict continuous repetition result for each exercise. For the first exercise, count one continuous set of strict close-grip reps. For the second exercise, keep a rigid plank, lower to roughly 90-degree elbow flexion or near-floor chest height, and press to full lockout. Repetitions are never converted into weight. Each exercise keeps its own measurement type. Age range changes only an exercise whose standards use age.
Close Grip Push Ups vs Bodyweight Push-Ups Strength Standards
The men’s and women’s tables show the exact Novice-through-Elite targets for both exercises. Weight-based targets use bodyweight and display actual pounds and kilograms. Repetition and time standards keep their exercise-specific units and use age only when the individual exercise standards require it.
Age and bodyweight are never combined as row dimensions. Internal bodyweight-ratio scores are never displayed. When the exercises use unlike measurements, the table presents an explicit reference crosswalk instead of inventing a conversion.
Men’s Close Grip Push Ups vs Push-Ups Standards
How to read the table: Choose the applicable age range, then use the labeled exercise row. Each strength-level entry contains one strict performance target. Bodyweight is not a row dimension in this table.
| Age | Exercise | Novice | Intermediate | Advanced | Elite |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 30 | Close Grip Push Ups | 10 reps | 24 reps | 46 reps | 72 reps |
| Push-Ups | 17 reps | 22 reps | 29 reps | 36 reps | |
| 30–39 | Close Grip Push Ups | 9 reps | 22 reps | 41 reps | 65 reps |
| Push-Ups | 12 reps | 17 reps | 22 reps | 27 reps | |
| 40–49 | Close Grip Push Ups | 8 reps | 19 reps | 37 reps | 58 reps |
| Push-Ups | 9 reps | 12 reps | 17 reps | 22 reps | |
| 50–59 | Close Grip Push Ups | 7 reps | 16 reps | 30 reps | 47 reps |
| Push-Ups | 7 reps | 10 reps | 13 reps | 17 reps | |
| 60+ | Close Grip Push Ups | 5 reps | 12 reps | 23 reps | 36 reps |
| Push-Ups | 4 reps | 7 reps | 10 reps | 13 reps |
Women’s Close Grip Push Ups vs Push-Ups Standards
How to read the table: Choose the applicable age range, then use the labeled exercise row. Each strength-level entry contains one strict performance target. Bodyweight is not a row dimension in this table.
| Age | Exercise | Novice | Intermediate | Advanced | Elite |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 30 | Close Grip Push Ups | 8 reps | 18 reps | 36 reps | 58 reps |
| Push-Ups | 10 reps | 15 reps | 20 reps | 30 reps | |
| 30–39 | Close Grip Push Ups | 7 reps | 16 reps | 32 reps | 52 reps |
| Push-Ups | 8 reps | 13 reps | 20 reps | 25 reps | |
| 40–49 | Close Grip Push Ups | 6 reps | 14 reps | 29 reps | 46 reps |
| Push-Ups | 5 reps | 11 reps | 15 reps | 20 reps | |
| 50–59 | Close Grip Push Ups | 5 reps | 12 reps | 23 reps | 38 reps |
| Push-Ups | 2 reps | 6 reps | 11 reps | 15 reps | |
| 60+ | Close Grip Push Ups | 4 reps | 9 reps | 18 reps | 29 reps |
| Push-Ups | 1 reps | 4 reps | 7 reps | 10 reps |
How Your Close Grip Push Ups vs Bodyweight Push-Ups Result Is Calculated
The two exercises can use different measurements. The calculator rates each result against the standards for that exercise first, then compares the resulting strength levels and progress toward the next level. It never invents a reps-to-weight conversion.
2. Rate the Close Grip Push Ups result
The exercise-specific tool supplies sex-, bodyweight-band-, and age-specific repetition thresholds plus a stretch target. The calculator uses strict continuous bodyweight repetitions and does not convert the repetitions into an estimated weight.
3. Rate the Push-Ups result
Sex- and age-specific repetition thresholds map the strict set to a exercise-specific strength tier; no reps-to-weight conversion is used. The calculator uses one continuous strict standard floor push-up set scored by total reps and does not convert the repetitions into an estimated weight.
4. Compare strength level and progress
The lower strength level is the priority. When both exercises reach the same level, a priority appears only when one is at least 10 points farther from its next target. Otherwise, the result is Balanced. Age range changes only the exercise whose standards include age; it remains an analytics field for the other exercise.
| Stage | What happens |
|---|---|
| Rate the close grip push ups set | Compare strict repetitions with the applicable exercise-specific thresholds without an estimated-max conversion. Measurement: Strict continuous Close Grip Push Ups reps. |
| Rate the push-up | Rate one continuous strict bodyweight floor push-up set without converting repetitions into weight. Measurement: Total strict reps. |
| Compare levels | Use each exercise’s own level and next target; do not compare or divide results that use different measurements. |
How Men’s Close Grip Push Ups and Bodyweight Push-Ups Standards Differ
What the men’s standards show:
Elite direct-performance targets from the youngest to oldest listed age range at 120 lb bodyweight.
Elite direct-performance targets from the youngest to oldest listed age range at 120 lb bodyweight.
Raw repetitions, seconds, and weights are not divided or converted. The calculator compares each exercise’s strength tier and progress within that tier.
The line chart below preserves each exercise’s real standards measurement in its own panel. Repetitions, seconds, and weights are never converted into one another.
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How Women’s Close Grip Push Ups and Bodyweight Push-Ups Standards Differ
What the women’s standards show:
Elite direct-performance targets from the youngest to oldest listed age range at 100 lb bodyweight.
Elite direct-performance targets from the youngest to oldest listed age range at 100 lb bodyweight.
Raw repetitions, seconds, and weights are not divided or converted. The calculator compares each exercise’s strength tier and progress within that tier.
The line chart below preserves each exercise’s real standards measurement in its own panel. Repetitions, seconds, and weights are never converted into one another.
Line chart loading. The standards tables above contain the exact values.
Close Grip Push Ups and Bodyweight Push-Ups Exercises Used by This Calculator
Valid results depend on using the specified close grip push ups and bodyweight push-ups technique and load convention. Use strict, repeatable Close Grip Push Ups and Push-Ups tests that follow each exercise’s setup, range of motion, equipment, and load rules. Do not mix variations, assistance, partial range, momentum, or different load conventions.
Use the Close Grip Push Ups setup and load convention
Count one continuous set of strict close-grip reps. Each rep uses hands narrower than shoulder width, elbows tracking close, the chest reaching the same bottom range, and full elbow lockout at the top. Do not count standard-width, diamond, wide, decline, incline, weighted, knee-assisted, band-assisted, shallow, bounced, or changed-hand-position reps. Do not combine multiple sets into one score. Use the same rep standard for retests.
Use the Push-Up setup and load convention
Start in a plank position with hands approximately shoulder-width apart. Body remains in a straight line from shoulders to ankles. Lower until elbows reach roughly 90° of flexion or chest is near floor height. Press to full elbow lockout each rep. Each rep starts with straight arms and finishes with full lockout. No sagging hips or piking. Repetitions are continuous with no resting on the floor. Only strict push-ups count. No knee, incline, decline, weighted, assisted, partial, or plyometric push-up variations.
Enter one recent Close Grip Push Ups result and one recent Bodyweight Push-Ups result
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