Strict Bodyweight Pull-Up vs Weighted Muscle Up
Compare your strict bodyweight pull-up and weighted muscle up against strength standards for your sex, age range, and bodyweight. Enter one result for each exercise to see your strength levels, next targets, and priority.
First exercise: Strict continuous Strict Bodyweight Pull-Up reps. Second exercise: Weight used and a whole number from 1 to 12 reps. Use the units shown. For the first exercise, pronated grip with chin clearly above the bar at the top. For the second exercise, complete strict weighted muscle up repetitions through full range with a stable setup, controlled weight, and no assistance. 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 Weighted Muscle Up 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 Weighted Muscle Up Standards
Reference crosswalk: Unlike measurements are not subtracted or converted. Each column states its own reference and preserves the exercise’s real unit.
| Strength level | Strict Bodyweight Pull-Up, Under 30 | Weighted Muscle Up at 120 lb bodyweight |
|---|---|---|
| Novice | 4 reps | 5 lb2.2 kg |
| Intermediate | 8 reps | 14 lb6.5 kg |
| Advanced | 13 reps | 29 lb13.1 kg |
| Elite | 18 reps | 48 lb21.8 kg |
Women’s Strict Bodyweight Pull-Up vs Weighted Muscle Up Standards
Reference crosswalk: Unlike measurements are not subtracted or converted. Each column states its own reference and preserves the exercise’s real unit.
| Strength level | Strict Bodyweight Pull-Up, Under 30 | Weighted Muscle Up at 100 lb bodyweight |
|---|---|---|
| Novice | 2 reps | 2 lb0.9 kg |
| Intermediate | 4 reps | 5 lb2.3 kg |
| Advanced | 7 reps | 12 lb5.4 kg |
| Elite | 10 reps | 22 lb10 kg |
How Your Strict Bodyweight Pull-Up vs Weighted Muscle Up 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.
1. Estimate the weight-based result
For Weighted Muscle Up, one rep uses the weight entered. For 2–12 reps, the calculator runs both estimates and keeps the lower result.
- Epley: weight × (1 + reps ÷ 30)
- Brzycki: weight × 36 ÷ (37 − reps)
For a useful Strict Bodyweight Pull-Up vs Weighted Muscle Up comparison, use clean, recent sets performed with consistent technique and range of motion. Lower-rep sets usually require less extrapolation.
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 Weighted Muscle Up result
The individual Weighted Muscle Up calculator supplies sex-specific standards for estimated added external load divided by bodyweight. Novice through Elite and the stretch benchmark use the exact exercise-specific threshold export; bodyweight is not added to the entered load.
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 weighted muscle up | Use the exercise-specific added-load-to-bodyweight thresholds directly without allometric rescaling. Measurement: estimated one-rep max. |
| 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 Weighted Muscle Up 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 weight targets from 120 to 300 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 Weighted Muscle Up 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 weight targets from 100 to 240 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 Weighted Muscle Up Exercises Used by This Calculator
Compare like-for-like attempts by keeping the strict bodyweight pull-up and weighted muscle up setup consistent with their individual rules. Use strict, repeatable Strict Bodyweight Pull-Up and Weighted Muscle Up 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 Weighted Muscle Up setup and load convention
The entered weight for strict Weighted Muscle Up. Valid Weighted Muscle Up reps. Pull high enough to transition over the bar and press to stable top support without kip, swing, or jumping assistance and finish with a valid rep finishes in locked-out support above the bar and returns or resets under control according to the set standard. Consistent setup, range, and finish quality across the entered set. No substituted exercise or assisted reps.
Enter one recent Strict Bodyweight Pull-Up result and one recent Weighted Muscle Up result
First exercise: Strict continuous Strict Bodyweight Pull-Up reps. Second exercise: Weight used and a whole number from 1 to 12 reps. Use the units shown.
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