# @thehuntingchallenge on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Da3l4IBBO6w
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/67960680-thehuntingchallenge-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/ffe56ae5d5.jpg
- **Posted:** 2026-07-16T21:20:06.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Jon | Fitness After 40 (@thehuntingchallenge) — https://gondola.cc/thehuntingchallenge

## Caption

Day 3: #muscleup challenge.  According to AI: <1% of the general adult population can do a strict muscle-up, and roughly 1% of men. That skews heavily toward younger, trained people. For 50+ specifically, three things stack against you: shoulder mobility declines, explosive pulling power drops, and bodyweight typically creeps up. CDC data also shows only ~30% of 45–64 year old men even do any muscle-strengthening activity twice a week, dropping to 22% at 65+.

Rough estimate: something like 1 in 1,000 to 1 in 5,000 people over 50 can do a strict, unassisted muscle-up. In the US (~115M people aged 50+), that’s roughly 25,000–120,000. Globally, maybe a few hundred thousand to a couple million. Kipping muscle-ups would bump those numbers up meaningfully.

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