30 Aug 2009 - "Murph"

Coming back and rediscovering my blog is entirely motivated by the after-effects of today's workout. With that being said, let me show you a picture of the aftermath of today's WOD (workout of the day):



"Murph"

For time:
1 mile Run
100 Pull-ups
200 Push-ups
300 Squats
1 mile Run

WOD: 59:52

I'm not sure I was into the first mile that we started at, it took me over 10 minutes to run, and I was a little scared that I was off course because I hadn't run at the new gym yet...At about 30 minutes into it, I ripped my right hand, and about 3 minutes later, I ripped the left one pretty bad- far worse than the right one. After grinding through the pull ups, pushups, squats that last mile took me nearly 18 minutes. Pretty tough. My hands hurt like hell.

On the hero wod. When I was deployed to Afghanistan you could always know who the Navy SEALS were. They were the buffed out bearded dudes sculpted like Greek gods, pretty much doing whatever they wanted...the toughest guys on the base. I tried to keep thinking to myself that Lt. Murphy did this for fun. It makes sense that a SEAL came up with something this simple yet grueling.

For more information on Navy Lt. Michael Murphy Click here: http://www.navy.mil/moh/mpmurphy/soa.html



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bh.