Strict Bodyweight Pull-Up vs Close Grip Push Ups
Compare your strict bodyweight pull-up and close grip 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, pronated grip with chin clearly above the bar at the top. For the second exercise, count one continuous set of strict close-grip reps. Repetitions are never converted into weight. Each exercise keeps its own measurement type. Age range changes only an exercise whose standards use age.
Strict Bodyweight Pull-Up vs Close Grip 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 Strict Bodyweight Pull-Up vs Close Grip 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 | Strict Bodyweight Pull-Up | 4 reps | 8 reps | 13 reps | 18 reps |
| Close Grip Push Ups | 10 reps | 24 reps | 46 reps | 72 reps | |
| 30–39 | Strict Bodyweight Pull-Up | 4 reps | 8 reps | 13 reps | 18 reps |
| Close Grip Push Ups | 9 reps | 22 reps | 41 reps | 65 reps | |
| 40–49 | Strict Bodyweight Pull-Up | 4 reps | 8 reps | 13 reps | 18 reps |
| Close Grip Push Ups | 8 reps | 19 reps | 37 reps | 58 reps | |
| 50–59 | Strict Bodyweight Pull-Up | 4 reps | 8 reps | 13 reps | 18 reps |
| Close Grip Push Ups | 7 reps | 16 reps | 30 reps | 47 reps | |
| 60+ | Strict Bodyweight Pull-Up | 4 reps | 8 reps | 13 reps | 18 reps |
| Close Grip Push Ups | 5 reps | 12 reps | 23 reps | 36 reps |
Women’s Strict Bodyweight Pull-Up vs Close Grip 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 | Strict Bodyweight Pull-Up | 2 reps | 4 reps | 7 reps | 10 reps |
| Close Grip Push Ups | 8 reps | 18 reps | 36 reps | 58 reps | |
| 30–39 | Strict Bodyweight Pull-Up | 2 reps | 4 reps | 7 reps | 10 reps |
| Close Grip Push Ups | 7 reps | 16 reps | 32 reps | 52 reps | |
| 40–49 | Strict Bodyweight Pull-Up | 2 reps | 4 reps | 7 reps | 10 reps |
| Close Grip Push Ups | 6 reps | 14 reps | 29 reps | 46 reps | |
| 50–59 | Strict Bodyweight Pull-Up | 2 reps | 4 reps | 7 reps | 10 reps |
| Close Grip Push Ups | 5 reps | 12 reps | 23 reps | 38 reps | |
| 60+ | Strict Bodyweight Pull-Up | 2 reps | 4 reps | 7 reps | 10 reps |
| Close Grip Push Ups | 4 reps | 9 reps | 18 reps | 29 reps |
How Your Strict Bodyweight Pull-Up vs Close Grip 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 Strict Bodyweight Pull-Up 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 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.
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 strict bodyweight pull-up set | Compare strict repetitions with the applicable exercise-specific thresholds without an estimated-max conversion. Measurement: Strict continuous Strict Bodyweight Pull-Up reps. |
| 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. |
| Compare levels | Use each exercise’s own level and next target; do not compare or divide results that use different measurements. |
How Men’s Strict Bodyweight Pull-Up and Close Grip 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.
Line chart loading. The standards tables above contain the exact values.
How Women’s Strict Bodyweight Pull-Up and Close Grip 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.
Strict Bodyweight Pull-Up and Close Grip Push Ups Exercises Used by This Calculator
The calculator expects repeatable strict bodyweight pull-up and close grip push ups results. Follow each exercise definition below so the two ratings are based on valid tests. Use strict, repeatable Strict Bodyweight Pull-Up and Close Grip 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 Strict Bodyweight Pull-Up setup and load convention
Strict, unbroken set of dead-hang pull-ups. Pronated grip with chin clearly above the bar at the top. No kipping, hip drive, or leg swing. Full arm extension at the bottom of each rep. One continuous set with no rest.
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.
Enter one recent Strict Bodyweight Pull-Up result and one recent Close Grip Push Ups result
Enter one strict continuous repetition result for each exercise.
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