The Murph Challenge

[Lion8286]

It's Memorial Day, it's incredibly hot out, and instead of lounging by the pool, a bunch of your friends are talking about doing Murph.

Murph is a popular workout created by CrossFit in memory of Navy Lt. Michael Murphy who died in Afghanistan on June 28, 2005.

Known as a Hero WOD (WOD = workout of the day), Murph was first posted on August 18, 2005, and is completed every year on Memorial Day by CrossFitters and Navy SEALs alike.

Complete the following movements for time:

• 1-mile run

• 100 pull-ups

• 200 push-ups

• 300 air squats

• 1-mile run

• ... in a 20-lb. weight vest or body armor

According to CrossFit, this workout was one of Murphy's favorites. He'd named it "Body Armor," though it was renamed as Murph in his honor.

It sounds intense. And it is.

It takes roughly 45 minutes to an hour (or more) and is one of the most well known workouts in all of CrossFit.

In 2014, 'The Murph Challenge' became the official fundraiser of the Lt. Michael P. Murphy Memorial Scholarship Foundation. Since 2014, the organization started by Murphy's family has raised more than $1 million.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/27/us/memorial-day-murph-challenge-trnd/index.html

 

[81b&w]

OR; you can put on the 20lb weighted vest, hands tied and get thrown in a lake. You'd get the same workout in 3 minutes.

 

[81b&w]

or not

 

[royboy]

Just to recall Lieutenant Murphy, here is part of his bio from Wiki:

Michael Patrick "Murph" Murphy (7 May 1976 – 28 June 2005) was a United States Navy SEAL officer who was awarded the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions during the War in Afghanistan. He was the first member of the U.S. Navy to receive the award since the Vietnam War [1]. His other posthumous awards include the Silver Star Medal (which was later upgraded to the Medal of Honor) and the Purple Heart.

Michael Murphy was born and raised in Suffolk County, New York. He graduated from Pennsylvania State University with honors and dual degrees in political science and psychology. After college he accepted a commission in the United States Navy and became a United States Navy SEAL in July 2002. After participating in several War on Terrorism missions, he was killed on 28 June 2005, after his team was compromised and surrounded by Taliban forces near Asadabad, Afghanistan.

The U.S. Navy ship USS Michael Murphy, and several civilian and military buildings have been named in his honor.

 

[AWS1022]

OR; you can put on the 20lb weighted vest, hands tied and get thrown in a lake. You'd get the same workout in 3 minutes.

Or you can try my favorite workout...go from Netflix, to the dinner table, and back to Netflix. It’s tough, but it can be done. For an added degree of difficulty, you could try to skip dessert....that really takes the value of the workout up a notch.

 

[Chris92]

Or you can try my favorite workout...go from Netflix, to the dinner table, and back to Netflix. It’s tough, but it can be done. For an added degree of difficulty, you could try to skip dessert....that really takes the value of the workout up a notch.

You missed the part about the weighted vest. Although, with your workout, having the wife on your back all day should suffice.

 

[AWS1022]

You missed the part about the weighted vest. Although, with your workout, having the wife on your back all day should suffice.

Yes, a definite added degree of difficulty.

 

[PSUSignore]

As the saying goes... how do you find out if your friends are into Crossfit? Don't worry, they'll tell you at every opportunity. I got to hear a lot about "the Murph" workout yesterday.

 

[Cletus11]

how do you do 100 pull ups with a 20 pound vest on.

 

[bwifan]

how do you do 100 pull ups with a 20 pound vest on.

Believe most don't obviously do 100 pull ups with a 20 pound vest on... they will break it up into sets. I.E. 5 sets of 20...

 

[anon_1eeb2b426hv3y]

As the saying goes... how do you find out if your friends are into Crossfit? Don't worry, they'll tell you at every opportunity. I got to hear a lot about "the Murph" workout yesterday.

Same! I saw an old friend Saturday and Sunday and he mentioned CrossFit and “Murph” several times. I’d at least heard of CrossFit. I didn’t know or care and began to ignore him—and i made it obvious.

 

[anon_1eeb2b426hv3y]

how do you do 100 pull ups with a 20 pound vest on.

It’s simple. You don’t.

 

[Chickenman Testa]

It’s simple. You don’t.

It helps that they do lame kip-up pull-ups - which aren’t pull ups

CrossFit is a slipped disc ready to happen

 

[dbsteel]

Believe most don't obviously do 100 pull ups with a 20 pound vest on... they will break it up into sets. I.E. 5 sets of 20...

Or in my case, 100 sets of 1.

 

[ClarkstonMark]

Or in my case, 100 sets of 1.

haha ... guessing 95% of this forum cannot do 10 pull-ups
I could do the Murph challenge if I substituted something for the pull-ups, and utilized my existing 20LB internal "weight vest"

 

[jrd23psu]

My GF loves this workout. She did it again this year but she does not do it with the weighted vest and does modified pull ups since she cannot do pull ups. She beat her previous time and did in in 57 minutes and some change this year.

 

[KnightSlayer]

Believe most don't obviously do 100 pull ups with a 20 pound vest on... they will break it up into sets. I.E. 5 sets of 20...

I'm doing 100 sets of 1 spaced out over an entire lifetime.

 

[PS4814]

It helps that they do lame kip-up pull-ups - which aren’t pull ups

CrossFit is a slipped disc ready to happen

Can confirm - did crossfit for a year - wound up with a back injury and a numb right thigh that took 4 months to regain feeling.

I did enjoy learning the “olympic” lifts, just not rapidly throwing “x” weight over my head “y” times in 2 minutes.

 

[91Joe95]

how do you do 100 pull ups with a 20 pound vest on.

1/2 pull up 200 times.

 

[91Joe95]

Or you can try my favorite workout...go from Netflix, to the dinner table, and back to Netflix. It’s tough, but it can be done. For an added degree of difficulty, you could try to skip dessert....that really takes the value of the workout up a notch.

"Netflix and chill"

 

[Cletus11]

Believe most don't obviously do 100 pull ups with a 20 pound vest on... they will break it up into sets. I.E. 5 sets of 20...

so do the Seals do the push-ups, pull-ups, and air squats with the weight vest on. I would not put it past them considering how jacked most of them are.

 

[RGWhirly]

Believe most don't obviously do 100 pull ups with a 20 pound vest on... they will break it up into sets. I.E. 5 sets of 20...

I've done it a few times and towards the end the sets are about 3-5 with rest in between.

 

[anon_1eeb2b426hv3y]

so do the Seals do the push-ups, pull-ups, and air squats with the weight vest on. I would not put it past them considering how jacked most of them are.

God bless those guys. The time in my life when I’d even consider trying to get in such shape as to attempt that has long since passed. Glad they’re on our side.

 

[GreggK]

ugh. Cross-Fit people.

 

[PearlSUJam]

 

[Obliviax]

That's called "The Murph Challenge?" Huh, I always just called that breakfast.