How many push ups should I be able to do at 13?

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Generally teenagers have goofy push-ups without the best kind of form, pumping themselves up and down without a smooth, steady motion. In that case you're letting the momentum do a lot of the work, at which point it's easy to do like 200 or something ridiculous like that.

If you do your push-ups slower and very methodically, it'll be much tougher and you might only be able to do 20.

I'd say forget about trying to count and just focus on getting stronger, and also mix up your styles of push-ups to really hit various muscles and from different angles.

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- ak666
  
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  It's easier to say for pull-ups since it's harder to cheat on the form them, even though you can still kind of use momentum there. For pull-ups I'd say 8+ should be normal.
  
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Work in the range of motion and not the number. The deeper and slowly it will produce a better outcome than going for the max number. Its all about form.

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Maik567 Follow
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I'd say that if you can't do at least 10 proper push ups (chest all the way to the ground), then you need to get healthier.

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  This is for guys by the way. If you're a girl it's different.
  
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Panay Follow
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hmmm assuming you have average strength and weight id say around 10-20? thats just a rough estimate tho

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Melcart23 Follow
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With bad form, you can do a lot more than you can with good form. I'm not really sure of an exact number though.

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Josht13 Follow
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30+ for someone who's sporty.

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Yanoa_Yanza Follow
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As many as it takes before your arms feel numb

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- Josht13
  
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  and that number should be?
  
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- Yanoa_Yanza
  
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  @Josht13 How many can you do? That's the answer
  
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- Josht13
  
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  close to 50 (not quite there yet) but I have nothing to do in my spare time but go to the local gym I'm not even muscly kind of skinny but athletic.
  
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- Yanoa_Yanza
  
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  @Josht13 Fair enough ^^
  One more day and I'll have finally nothing to do xD
  
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- Josht13
  
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  yeah I've now got 11 weeks of absolutely nothing to do literally just gonna go to the gym basically daily I will reach ottermode.
  
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- Yanoa_Yanza
  
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  @Josht13 One more day...
  
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Browneye57 Follow
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A few. So what.

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