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Abdominal muscle strength and endurance is important for core stability and back support. This sit-up test measures the strength and endurance of the abdominals and hip-flexor muscles. How many sit-ups can you do in 1 minute? Count how many you can do in one minute and then check the chart below for your rating.

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Starting Position: Lie on a carpeted or cushioned floor with your knees bent at approximately right angles, with feet flat on the ground. Your hands should be resting on your thighs. The feet are not anchored.

Technique: Squeeze your stomach, push your back flat and raise high enough for your hands to slide along your thighs to touch the tops of your knees. Don't pull with you neck or head and keep your lower back on the floor. Then return to the starting position.

How did you go?

Compare your results to the table below. Remember, these scores are based on doing the tests as described, and may not be accurate if the test is modified at all. Don't worry too much about how you rate - just try and improve your own score.

1 Minute sit-up test (Men)

1 Minute sit-up test (Women)

Source: adapted from Golding, et al. (1986). The Y's way to physical fitness (3rd ed.), pages 113-124.

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Selected Comments

• I am 13 years old, i can do 97 situps in 1 minute, is that good? (Adam, Dec 2021)
  
• I do roughly 150 sit ups a day and do 50 in each set. Sometimes I do more. When your stomach begins to hurt, take a deep breath and go again. Stay motivated! (Ella, Feb 2021)
• I am a female,11 and did 49 in 1 minute. A good tip is to take deep breaths when you can instead of taking multiple short breaths every time. (noname, Nov 2020)
• 66, female, 58 in a minute. My goal is 77, I believe i can do it. (Amy Bwecknell, 2013)
• male 15 years old got to 111 sit up (Ethan Meinders Amy Bwecknell,2018)
  • Veronica Kang Ethan Meinders (2020)
    That's awesome, but do you take a break between? When you are doing 111 sit ups?
• Brynne Muir (2013)
  29, female, 52 in a minute. My goal is 63.
• Svipper (2013)
  peeps with mega scores, don't mix sit-up and crucnh, they are absolutely different. Real sit up, full body raise, is way harder than crunch
  • Commodore665 svipper (2014)
    Exactly it's all technique
  • David Morgan svipper (2017)
    No, a full sit-up, whilst slower than a crunch, is much less useful and physically tiring ... only the middle 2/3 of a full sit up is useful as the very bottom and top of the sit up are using thigh not abdominal muscles... in order to get full gain from a sit up it should not be done to the very top
  • KJ svipper (2014)
    Full sit ups are generally considered to be really bad for your back and not really that helpful for functional movement anyway.
  • John KJ (2016)
    That is actually incorrect, people just don't know the proper technique. A sit up require some modicum of abdominal strength to prefor to begin with it is something that should be done in a paced manner without swinger your arms or using any thing but abdominal strain to pull yourself up and EASE yourself down, I did around 48 in one minute going slow and making sure my technique was correct. When done correctly it helps your back, seeing as your abdominals support your spine the most. Crunches work a different area of abdominal and are also a risk to your spine if done incorrectly. They are easier to preform at a quick pace so most prefer crunches over sit ups when I fact they are two completely different workouts working two different areas of your abdominals, I recommend doing both.
• David Bilbo (2013)
  Wow... I must be super excellent. I got 63 in one minute, and I stopped at the last 5 seconds. I knew a kid who could do 75+
  
  • Svipper David Bilbo (2013)
    Crunch or sit-up?
• The Knuckeldredger David Bilbo (2016)
  I have a friend who did 81 this year for our physical ed fitness testing. He's a freshman.
• Chanel The Knuckeldredger (2019)
  i am in year 10 and i got about 49-60 throughout the years and yes crunch is harder than sit ups as your cores are more engaged
• Hammad (2014)
  14 year old male, 60 push-ups
  • Ben Hammad (2015)
    52 same age (sit ups)
• Konstanze Pahalage fantny (2017)
  yea the world record is 139
• Someone? fantny (2016)
  ya, okay bud I'm sure you can do 150 when you're 9. I'm only a 12 year old male too and only did 46...
• LOL (2013)
  16 Year Old Male, I got 53 in a minute
• ShaniThePenguin LOL (2015)
  12 year old female, 54
• Ryan ShaniThePenguin (2016)
  There's no way you can do that many. I'm 15 years old, male, and can only 48
• Grace Blakely Ryan (2016)
  I'm 14 and female and i can do 60 in a minute
• Evelyn Ryan (2016)
  lol I know a female in my Njrotc program that can do 200, And that was our freshman year
• Dexiant Evelyn (2018)
  So she did 33% more situps than the world record? Wow, impressive -_-
• Tony (2014)
  32 male, beside having a daily workout routine I often do 100 push-ups most nights about 30-60 minutes before bed, to help exhaust the remaining energy from the day, last night I timed myself for the fist time and accomplished 100 in 57 Seconds (full push-ups: meaning all the way up until arms are straight to all the way down, when chest touches the ground and/or elbows are bend past 90 degrees and knees are straight and not bent or touching the floor)
• Gil (2014)
  the world record of situps for one min. belong to Gil Newton who done 139 situps in 1 min.all was record by video cammera,another jym trainer with clicker,and another 3 gym trainers as a widness
• Kelsey ainsly harriet (2015)
  The most ever done was 139 lmao
• Alexis French (2020)
  so i am a 17 year old girl and i could only do 12 sit-ups in a minute..... what should i do to become better?
• JD (2020)
  I am female and only 13 years old and got to 203 sit ups.
• JD (2020)
  I am female and only 13 years old and I did 203 sit ups.
• Autumn (2020)
  I am 13 when I was younger I used to do 40 sit ups every night I think I will start doing that again so I can get back to doing 80 in a minute.
• Nizza (2019)
  Im 12 years old female and i did 40 sit ups in one minute. My goal is 45 sit ups in one minute!
• Maddy (2019)
  I'm 14 female just did 158 push-ups and 176 sit ups but mom and dad are both marines!
• Ramiresu Migeru (2017)
  I remember a couple years back I did nearly 100 in a minute I will make it happen again male 17
• Michael12321 (2016)
  I'm 13 years old and I did 203 sit-ups at once at a boy scout meeting once, all perfect form, spot checked by 3 adults. Is this too far above average? (took about 4 minutes)
• Bethy (2016)
  14 yrs 73 in a minute
  (I'm doing pe as a gcse)
• Elle (2016)
  I'm a 16 year old female and I did 45 :) Very proud of myself
• Hailee Low (2016)
  I am a 13 year old girl and can do 50 in under a minute..my next goal is 60
• Link (2016)
  I'm 11female and I did 45 sit ups in 1 min. I want to get 60 in 1 minute
• Evelyn (Nick) (2015)
  15, female 90 in a min. My goal is 100.. don't feel bad i'm in military training :) before this I can only do 60
• Sacrwegf (2015)
  13 year old girl, 71 in a minute
  
  • Ryan sacrwegf (2016)
    You must be lying. You can't possibly do that many.
• ShaniThePenguin Claire Hiddleston (2015)
  Not at all, you saw the average for people under 18 and it was 25. That's actually pretty good
• Alex (2015)
  13yr old male 55 in 1 minute
• Andreas (2015)
  Almost 27 year old guy here, did 31 reps in 1min. So barely average but hopefully I will improve in the future!
• Liamcorden123 (2015)
  I do running a lot as well and have fruit and I alwys go for a run every morning to make be feel a lot better
• Liamcorden123 (2015)
  do press ups and that always works for me and make me me a lot fitter
• Randomness132145 (2015)
  I'm 13 year old male and I got 41 sit ups in 60 sec. My age group is not in the charts above so I was wondering is that good or bad?y names Jacob by the way not randomness132145
• Chris Cooper (2015)
  19 year old male no prior working out whatsoever besides a push-up test, did 30 in about 55 seconds.
• Amira (2015)
  I'm 14 and can do about 28 in a minute
• AB (2015)
  37 sit-ups in a minute (not crunches), goal is 50 in a minute
  35 push ups in a minute (normal, not on my knees), goal 50 in a minute
• Ai (2014)
  when I was little (8-10), I did 80 consecutives..
• Samy nany (2014)
  84,female. I want to know how can I increase my crunches count,my current score is only 78 a minute.
• Ronald (2014)
  Can you put your feet under a couch?
  
  • Rob Admin ronald (2014)
    The norm table above is based on not holding the feet down, but that does not stop you from doing the test this way and monitoring your improvement based on that technique. Just don't expect the table to accurately rate your result.
• Suprised (2014)
  21, male, 26 in a minute, my goal is 30. At least I have a six-pack.
• Sqt (2013)
  I haven't exercised in awhile due to some health issues. So I'm happy with 33 a minute sit-ups (44 years old). These are full sit-ups btw, not crunches.
• 22, female, 50 full sit ups (entire top half of body off floor) in 58 seconds. Why does this website call crunches, sit ups. (Siobhan, 2014)