Sometimes workouts look like a good idea on paper, but once you start doing them, you realize they were an EPIC FAIL. CrossFit programming is typically rock solid, but I am going to punch whoever came up with "Murph Gone Bad" in the FACE if I ever meet them. "Hi nice to meet you so-and-so. Oh really? You're the guy? (PUNCH)"
As prescribed, the workout yesterday was HALF of Murph Gone Bad which is:
Row 800 meters
25 wall ball (20/14)
50 sumo deadlift high pull
75 push press
100 box jumps
Row 800 meters
The morning class looked at the name of the workout, and said, "why are we only doing HALF murph gone bad? Why don't we do the whole thing?!" A special thanks goes out to the morning class for setting the bar RIDICULOUSLY high for the rest of the classes yesterday. Ya hear that Kilo? You sweated your ass off for a frickin' hour because our Graveyard Crew decided they had too much swagger to only complete HALF a workout.
If it makes anyone feel better, it took them almost an hour to get through the whole thing too...Yesterday was the definition of intensity!
Great job to everyone who was at our first ramp-up session! We went over the different squats, and a few other movements just to get you all acquainted with our standards. Hopefully we didn't scare anyone away, and we'll see everyone back on Wednesday!


March 24, 2009, 9:42 pm
Wait wait wait...that means...
Row 1600 meters (just short of a mile)
50 wall ball (20/14)
100 sumo deadlift high pull
150 push press
200 box jumps
Row 1600 meters
Holy f*&%. You guys are effing crazy.
And I thought Murphy involved running. At least that would make the workout 1/2,000th less obnoxious.
March 24, 2009, 9:51 pm
Good math skills Brian. I realized the total insanity just after starting, but at that point I couldn't wuss out.
And yes, real Murph has running, but this was the insane reps of Murph with the movements of Fight Gone Bad.
Murph as prescribed is:
Mile run
100 pull-ups
200 push-ups
300 squats
Mile run
March 25, 2009, 7:11 am
With a 20lb weighted vest Chris
March 25, 2009, 2:53 pm
Great job to everyone who went through this workout. To everyone who doubled the suck on it, I'm not going to say you're crazy, but I'm going to think it (of course if I tried to do the full Murph Gone Bad, I'd probably still be there right now trying to finish it then taking a week off to recover from it). Amazing work though. You're all animals.
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