How many one-arm pushups is good for a fit young male?

I'd say you're only about 25 away from the lower-average range. Just keep working man. I guess we can't all be ripped AND strong.

You can do 30 in a row on one-arm? Really? That's impressive.

Can't most people?

Pretty weak dude. Get in the 25-30 range and I'd say you're average.

I mean yeah??? I thought most people of average strength could do that. It really isn't that hard. Guess you're not working hard enough. Either that or you're just naturally not strong enough.

I doubt Ryan Hall could do one. Is he a "fit young male"?

Nah he's getting pretty old.

I'd definitely say 25-30 reps would be the lower end of average, especially for someone as lean as most runners. Don't get discouraged though - everybody starts out somewhere!

Eventually you can go from one hand (five fingers) and slowly remove fingers for increased difficulty. I currently use only my pointer finger to do push-ups. My friend is fitter than me and is down to zero. He literally levitates up and down. He is jacked.

We did this once in college. I was right in the middle at 32. Lowest that I remember was a 17. Highest was at 61.

Yeah I've seen guys do one finger pushups, never seen the zero fingers though. That must be hard.

peaches, how many regular push-ups can you do?

and super serial what about you?

I would appreciate some serious responses to this thread.

Regarding regular push-ups for me - I appear to be a rather strange fellow. I read on the internet that AFTER you can do 50 regular pushups, you can START trying to do one one-hand rep. However, I can do 5 one-hand reps, and I can't get close to 50 normal pushups...maybe I could do 20, at most. :)

I love white peaches wrote:

I would appreciate some serious responses to this thread.

Regarding regular push-ups for me - I appear to be a rather strange fellow. I read on the internet that AFTER you can do 50 regular pushups, you can START trying to do one one-hand rep. However, I can do 5 one-hand reps, and I can't get close to 50 normal pushups...maybe I could do 20, at most. :)

Well that is your problem obviously. I would say average for most of us is around 200 (no breaks). If you do 2 sets, probably 325.

Work on your normal pushups until you are not such a weakling, then try to build up your one arm ones.

If the average fit runner could do 200 pushups, the good one's would weigh 180-210 and be stronger than most professional football players and UFC fighters. Why doesn't anyone give him a straight response instead of cracking jokes that 5 people in front of you already have and trying to convince yourself that 3 inches is big.

Ill start:

I think a fit young runner should be able to do 5-20 one armed pushups and 40-100 regular pushups. So you might be stronger with heavier weights but it's more imperative for running that you you can do at least 40 good-form standard pushups.

You got reverse trolled the shit out of.

80-90 regular pushups.

30-40 1-handed pushups.

I am your average dime a dozen 15:30 5k runner and I can do 750 straight pushups and 245 one armed on each side. I am pretty average though, I suppose some of the more athletic types can approach 1500 pushups with no training.

Wow, I've never seen such trolling. Obviously 1-finger and 0-finger pushups are rare.

But you should definitely be able to do 25 one-arm pushups on each side. If you can't, get to a gym immediately.