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Murph anyone?

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  1. jrider

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    How Murph Became the Most Legendary Fitness Challenge Ever

    The Murph, also more popularly known as the Murphy Challenge is a workout done to honor Navy Seal Michael Murphy who came up with this workout as part of his normal fitness routine while away from the gym. It goes like this: run 1 mile, do 100 pullups, 200 pushups, 300 squats, and then run another mile. Historically, I have never been a big workout guy. I'd fool around for a couple months here and there but have been grinding it out workouts for almost a year straight now. I usually give up because I get bored but I found out about this a couple of months ago and have been working towards putting it all together in one workout. This morning was the day and I successfully completed the entire workout in just over 51 minutes. I was shooting for under an hour so I was very excited to be almost 9 minutes under that time. Has anyone else done this workout? If so, any advice moving forward? And for full transparency, I did not do it with the weighted vest.
     
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    Good for you. My workout is 30 mins on the treadmill at slow speed with inclines because of my knees.
     
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    That's Awesome...I couldn't pull my pants up 100 times in a day
     
  4. jrider

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    Haha! I'd first question why your pants would be down 100 times to begin with but then again, maybe I don't want to know...
     
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    Attn: Gasifier

    This has your half marathon training written all over it! :rofl: :lol:
     
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    o_OIt would take a LOT of training on my part to be able to get there!
     
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    Good for you jrider!
     
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    How about 20 12oz curls?
     
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    That's a good bicep workout...I can still do it, but it is a struggle now-a-days! :coldone::drunk:
     
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    100 pull ups!!!!!!!!!!!!! Holy Crap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Congratulations sir!!!!
     
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    Not all at once. They were done in smaller sets spread out over about 25-28 minutes. Most I can do without stopping is around a dozen or so.