Weighted pull-up percentile
Your weighted pull-up ranked against all adults of your age and sex — and against NCAA Division I athletes. Dead hang to chin over the bar, no kip. Enter added weight (0 for bodyweight) and reps. We score your estimated one-rep max — bodyweight plus added weight, scaled up for reps — so 15 bodyweight reps at 157 lb counts as roughly a 230 lb single.
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Dead hang to chin over the bar, no kip. Enter added weight (0 for bodyweight) and reps. We score your estimated one-rep max — bodyweight plus added weight, scaled up for reps — so 15 bodyweight reps at 157 lb counts as roughly a 230 lb single.
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Weighted pull-up standards by age — men
Result needed to beat the given share of all men in each age group, for a bodyweight of 179 lb (the calculator adjusts for yours).
| Age | 10th | 25th | 50th | 75th | 90th | 95th | 99th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18-29 | 140 lb | 160 lb | 190 lb | 225 lb | 255 lb | 270 lb | 310 lb |
| 30-39 | 135 lb | 155 lb | 185 lb | 220 lb | 245 lb | 265 lb | 305 lb |
| 40-49 | 130 lb | 145 lb | 175 lb | 205 lb | 230 lb | 245 lb | 285 lb |
| 50-59 | 115 lb | 130 lb | 155 lb | 185 lb | 210 lb | 220 lb | 255 lb |
| 60-69 | 100 lb | 115 lb | 135 lb | 165 lb | 185 lb | 195 lb | 225 lb |
Modeled — estimated from indirect evidence; treat as an informed estimate. Modeled from pull-up studies in students, soldiers, recruits and firefighters. The share of adults who can do one strict pull-up (about 60% of young men, 8% of young women) is an informed assumption.
Weighted pull-up standards by age — women
Result needed to beat the given share of all women in each age group, for a bodyweight of 153 lb (the calculator adjusts for yours).
| Age | 10th | 25th | 50th | 75th | 90th | 95th | 99th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18-29 | 70 lb | 85 lb | 100 lb | 125 lb | 145 lb | 160 lb | 195 lb |
| 30-39 | 70 lb | 80 lb | 100 lb | 120 lb | 145 lb | 160 lb | 185 lb |
| 40-49 | 65 lb | 75 lb | 90 lb | 110 lb | 130 lb | 145 lb | 175 lb |
| 50-59 | 55 lb | 65 lb | 80 lb | 100 lb | 120 lb | 130 lb | 155 lb |
| 60-69 | 50 lb | 55 lb | 70 lb | 85 lb | 100 lb | 110 lb | 135 lb |
Modeled — estimated from indirect evidence; treat as an informed estimate. Modeled from pull-up studies in students, soldiers, recruits and firefighters. The share of adults who can do one strict pull-up (about 60% of young men, 8% of young women) is an informed assumption.
Weighted pull-up — NCAA Division I athletes
Pooled across sports with published testing data, weighted by the number of D1 athletes in each sport.
| 10th | 25th | 50th | 75th | 90th | 95th | 99th | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men | 190 lb | 225 lb | 270 lb | 310 lb | 350 lb | 370 lb | 415 lb |
| Women | 115 lb | 140 lb | 165 lb | 190 lb | 215 lb | 225 lb | 255 lb |
Men: Modeled — estimated from indirect evidence; treat as an informed estimate. Rough pooled all-sport estimate informed by strict pull-up repetitions from 53 D1 FCS football players and checked against measured weighted pull-ups in trained college men, special-operations police and elite rugby players. Football body mass, repetition conversion and sport participation inform the model, with explicit assumptions about unmeasured relationships and other sports; direct pooled-D1 percentiles were not found.
Women: Modeled — estimated from indirect evidence; treat as an informed estimate. Rough pooled estimate anchored to measured weighted pull-up strength in college women and checked through sensitivity analysis against mixed-sex D1 swimmer repetitions. No sex-specific pooled-D1 weighted-pull-up distribution was found.
Weighted pull-up questions
What is a good weighted pull-up for a 30-year-old man?
For a 30-year-old man of median US size (179 lb), 185 lb beats half of them, 220 lb reaches the 75th percentile, and 250 lb reaches the 90th of all men that age. The calculator adjusts these for your own bodyweight.
What is a good weighted pull-up for a 30-year-old woman?
For a 30-year-old woman of median US size (153 lb), 100 lb beats half of them, 120 lb reaches the 75th percentile, and 145 lb reaches the 90th of all women that age. The calculator adjusts these for your own bodyweight.
How does that compare with D1 athletes?
Division I is a different population: our estimated median NCAA Division I man is at 270 lb, which would be the 95th percentile among all men aged 18-29; and our estimated median NCAA Division I woman is at 165 lb, which would be the 96th percentile among all women aged 18-29. The D1 comparison is raw — no age or size adjustment — so it is you against the athletes as they are.
How accurate are these weighted pull-up percentiles?
Modeled — estimated from indirect evidence; treat every number here as an informed estimate, not a measurement. Modeled from pull-up studies in students, soldiers, recruits and firefighters. The share of adults who can do one strict pull-up (about 60% of young men, 8% of young women) is an informed assumption. Modeled percentiles have no validated error margin. Results past the 99th percentile are shown as 99+ because the data cannot support more precision.
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