As always it’s a dangerous thing to go reading Twitter, especially when Happy is begging for q’s. But as I had to bow out of my q a few weeks ago, and Happy and the other UC pax have supported our launch of Mint Hill, I shouldn’t really complain now should I?
The Murph is a workout named after Navy Lieutenant Michael Murphy, who was killed in Afghanistan June 28th, 2005. He was 29, of Patchogue, N.Y. Lt Murphy was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor after his death. The workout was one of Mike’s favorites and he’d named it ‘Body Armor.
I posted at the Metro convergence yesterday and we did a modified Murph, and I liked it a lot and thought it was easily modified for us ruckers (or backpackers as Horsehead likes to say). So we did sort of the following:
10 – Merkins
20 – Squats
30 – LBC (modify for ruck if needed)
Rinse and repeat several times until the q gets tired.
Next up we had some time for fun with rucks!
We played Pass The Ruck and Squat, Squat and Hold With the Ruck and finally Tunnel of Love (with the ruck).
There was much rejoicing from the pax when Tunnel of Love was called. Music to my ears!
I always feel a lot more accomplished this time of year surviving workouts in the hothouse of the Carolinas in the summer. It doesn’t seem right to not sweat like a large woman walking around an amusement park on the border of two states that may or may not rhyme with Sparolina.
Awesome job by all the pax out there. Always amazed and humbled by Lamont and Shepherd’s tenacity and strength. I’m gonna be like them when I grow up. Or at least I hope so.
Glass Joe was complaining, so I know I was doing something right.
Thanks for the chance to lead and keep rocking in the free world (aka Union County).
DT out.
Must have been a new cop/sheriff for him to say he didn’t know we met there, we have been out there about a year and a half now.
Other notable quotes this morning…
1. “Don’t mess up Spidey”
2. “Don’t mess up my ruck” – Which I thought was funny because in 45 minutes we didn’t touch the amount of abuse that thing got in 2 GORCUK events. Unless it was specifically related to quote #1 above.
3. “He is a 3 minute man”
4. “more like a 30 minute man”
I don’t remember the context but seemed fitting for me to throw out the…
“That’s what she said”
As to which is better between 3 & 4? That all depends on the topic.
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