Dan Bailey Does MURPH with 100 POUNDS!

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So today we are going to do a workout that pretty much everybody knows about, I would say, whether you're in the CrossFit community or not, odds are you've heard of this workout, it's called Murph. And that workout is four time a one mile run, 100 pull ups, 200 push ups and 300 air squats, followed by another one mile run. Now, the way that this was originally designed was by Lieutenant Michael Murphy, who lost his life in Afghanistan, or I should say sacrificed himself for his teammates, for our country and for our safety over in Afghanistan. And this was a workout that he liked doing, where he called it body armor. That was just the name of it initially. It was one of his favorite workouts. So he wore a 20 pound vest while he did all this work. Now, this workout is usually done every Memorial Day, the CrossFit community in particular, everybody kind of pitches in. It's known as a hero workout in remembrance of our fallen military service members. So I'm going to do that workout today, but we're going to change things just a little bit. We're going to bring the weight up to 100 pounds. So I have a 20 pound vest here, which is pretty standard, what everybody uses. And then I'm going to add another 80 pounds in the rucksack today and try to do the exact same RX version or prescribed version of mrf, which would be doing the pull ups, push ups and air squats, all unpartitioned. Now, part of the reason that I wanted to try to do this at £100 is I know that our servicemen and women, when they're overseas, when they're out in the field, they're normally wearing way more than just £20 of gear. They're normally at £100 plus sometimes I've read up £120 or more when you're counting all the ammunition, the water, everything that they have to carry around. So we really wanted to try for £100 today. And I don't know if anyone's ever done this before. I haven't found any videos, I haven't found any information on it, if anybody's even tried it. So we're going to try today. I don't know exactly how long it's going to take me to finish. I think if I got in under two hours, I would be very impressed, I'd be very happy. It's definitely going to be one where you just kind of ease into things. So I know my mile run is going to be a little bit slower. And I'm going to approach those pull ups a little bit more conservative until I roll into the air, squats, and get a little bit of light at the end of the tunnel there. But I have no idea what to expect. I just know it's going to be really hard. And that's part of the process of doing a hero workout. You want to do something that's difficult. You want to do something that's worthy of somebody who sacrificed themselves for their teammates and for our countrymen and women. So that's what we're going to do here today. Before I go, though, I'm definitely going to take some ultraformance for a pre workout. Normally, I would take enduro formants for the duration that I typically work out. You know, CrossFit workouts are a little bit shorter. You're usually going five to anywhere to 20 minutes is usually a pretty long CrossFit workout. So enduroformance kind of does it for me there. But this one is going to be. Because we're going out to two hours probably, so I'm going to be moving for a very long time. So I want to make sure that not only I have extra carbs in me prior to starting the workout, but there's also electrolytes in here. There's things that help keep me hydrated. There's a handful of other things that when you're going out to a longer duration, you want to have circulating through your system to make sure you can perform at your best. Hopefully avoid cramps or anything like that. So make sure that I'm fully fueled up here. Knock this out. I'm going to start my warm up. So probably in about 20 to 30 minutes, we're gonna get rolling, see what happen.

There's three 25s. That's 75 plus 20 is 95, 100.

Yeah.

How'd that feel?

That feels. It's gonna be really hard. This is gonna be ridiculous.

So the only thing timing issue wise is the clock's gonna run up to 99 minutes. That's as far as it'll go. I think it's gonna take me longer than 99 minutes to get this done. So somebody else will be running their phone as well just to keep two clocks rolling, make sure we got an accurate count of where we're at and how long this actually takes.

All right.

Making sure that I want to. Ready to go here. Once this is coming on, not coming off for a little bit.

It.

Pretty rough.

It's just.

It's a lot of weight.

There's Nowhere to rest, you know.

Sam.

Let's go, baby. Let's go.

Sam.

Land.

Now. Without the £100, bro, you'd fly. You would fly. Okay.

Light as a feather.

So light.

Oh, man, you guys are awesome. It really is.

Thank you.

Really, not another place like this.

So take advantage every day.

You guys work for one of the best companies in the world, so that's awesome. Thank you guys for coming out. Thank you, guys.

Thanks. Break it down. Break it down. In the middle. Let's go.

All right, bring it in.

Let's go, let's go.

I am.

That was rough. From the first step to the last step, that was really hard. Like, I mean, I know that's no surprise, but, you know, usually in. When you do Murph, normally, obviously it's way more intense.

It's way more.

Well, intense is a relative word, but cardiovascular wise, it's way more intense. But even in that, it's like your first mile and your first, let's say, 50 pull ups, you're just kind of, like, easing into things.

You don't want to, like, go too.

Hot out the gate or anything like this. But this one man, from the first hundred yards to every single rep was a battle. Like, every single pull up, push up, and air squat. I thought the pull ups and push ups were never gonna end. I thought I was never gonna get to 200. I could not believe how long it was taking. You know, there's just no escape. Like, I tried to drop to a knee. I mean, in the push ups, you're laying on the floor and even that's not comfortable. I mean, my heart rate dropped quite a bit laying down there, but, like, just the weight pushing down on your back and then the plates on your back in. In front of your chest and everything.

It was just. There's just no escape. It was so brutal. No matter how hard it gets and, like, there's definitely times in it, like.

I wanted to quit.

I wanted to stop.

I want to be like, this is not worth it. Like, we can't. I can't keep going. I don't want to keep going. I'm, you know, worried I'm gonna get hurt. I'm worried about whatever, but it's like, you just gotta stuff that to the back of your mind. Because the hero workout's all about somebody who paid the ultimate sacrifice for their friends, for their family, really, for the freedoms that we get to have here. The freedoms to get the. Make a video like this and, like, inspire people through fitness and do workouts and do all that stuff, you know, we're. We're pretty blessed to be able to do that.

So.

The other thing that always pops in my mind is a Bible verse I've used ever since I started competing. That's Acts 20:24, it says. I consider laws are compared to the thing you're doing. The goal, you're going after the. You know, basically, you'll give it all.

You'll.

You'll.

You'll sell out for it. You'll do whatever it takes. Like, it absolutely does not. It doesn't take the pain away.

But it just helps you drive to the next step. It just helps you take that next step or do that next rep in whatever it is. So those are the things for something like that that are always, always going through my head. And this time, like, honestly, I'm proud that I get to say this because I'm a dad, is like, what would your kids think of you if you quit? What if this video were to surface one day where it's like, dad quit part way through. He couldn't finish it. He couldn't do it. There is no way I want my kids to ever say that or ever see that from me. Right? I want to teach them to work hard, and if you start something, you finish it. So that was pretty cool, actually having that thought, you know? But, yeah, those are the things that were keeping me going.

Sam.