Crossfit World Commemorates Fallen Soldiers - Hero wod Murph & Memorial day!
Author: Almost every CrossFitter knows this wod "Murph". They imagine sweat and blood. But do you know the story behind this workout? We're going to explain it to you today, and for those who don't know this wod, we'll explain it to you.
Hero workout Murph was named after fallen Navy Lieutenant Michael Murphy, who was killed in Afghanistan on June 28, 2005. Michael and three of his colleagues, Marcus Luttrell of Huntsville, Matthew Axelson of Cupertino and Danny Dietz of Littleton, got into a fierce firefight on a rocky hillside in Kunar Province, Afghanistan. After each member was shot at least once, Murphy decided to make a satellite phone call to Bagram Airfield and ask for the team to be rescued. At the end of the two-hour firefight, Murphy, Dietz and Axelson were dead. The tragedy was made all the worse when 16 rescue workers - eight other SEALs and eight members of the elite "Night Stalkers" military - were killed when their MH-47 Chinook helicopter was shot down by a rocket-propelled grenade. It was the largest single-day loss in the history of naval special warfare...
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You may not know it, but the movie " To the death" was also based on this event, the trailer can be found below.
Every year on May 25th, CrossFit gyms around the world "ride" the Murph wod, during which we remember the brave soldiers who gave their lives. This wod was just Michael's favorite workout, but he called it "Body Armour". Mathew Fraser managed to complete this wod in a time of 35min 49sec at the 2016 Reebok Crossfit Games .
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So what does the workout consist of? In the fastest time possible (men 10kg vest / women 7kg vest) you want to get fit:
1600m run
100 push-ups
200 push-ups
300 squats
1600m run
In the video below, you can watch footage of the workout from the 2016 Reebok Crossfit Games
Source: Youtube
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