This Murph workout, launched by CrossFit as a 'hero workout' in 2005, was created in memory of Navy Lieutenant Michael Murphy of Patchogue, New York. He was killed in Afghanistan, June 28, 2005 ...

Done in honor of late U.S. Navy SEAL Lt. Michael Murphy, the rigorous workout entails running a mile, then doing 100 pull-ups, 200 push-ups, 300 squats, before finishing with another one-mile run ...

More than 50 athletes came together to take on the Murph. It is a grueling workout named after Navy SEAL Lt. Michael Murphy, who was killed in action in Afghanistan in 2005.

The website “The Murph 24 Challenge“ (themurphchallenge.com) provides background on the namesake of the workout.

CrossFit BA is one of several Oklahoma gyms that did the Murph for Memorial Day. The workout is a 1 mile run, 100 pull ups, 200 push ups, 300 air squats, and another 1 mile run.

Not only did Zuckerberg squeeze in time for a workout but having completed the entire circuit in 39 minutes and 58 seconds, he would actually rank at around 206th place on the event site’s ...

Day 1 was exhausting, which was to be expected. "Somewhere along the way I started thinking maybe I should have scaled the workout back to a lighter version, or half-Murph," he says.