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PaperclipPerfector  8mo ago (text post)   2107 thread views

Wellness Wednesday for April 16, 2025

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Odd experience:

Training to try to do Murph (Mile run, 100 pull ups, 200 push ups, 300 squats, mile run) on memorial day, figure trying it a couple times a week is good conditioning anyway. Working up to it, I'm thinking wow I suck at this, I wonder what the record is and/or what a good time is online?

Normally when I look up CrossFit benchmarks, or powerlifting standards, like Fran or Grace the elite numbers and even normal standards strike me as basically impossible, numbers I can't imagine Hitting.

This time, it wasn't THAT bad. I'll definitely reach mid, which will make me happy at the event.

Just weird feeling. Normally I find out I suck worse than I thought.

Hopefully that carries over to the weekend: I'm going to a BJJ open mat at a different gym while I'm out of town for Easter. Hoping not to be embarrassed.

How many sets on the pullups? 1?

As many as needed, is how I've normally seen people do it. When doing very large volume I like to do a wave like 2-3-5-10. When you finish the 10, the 2 doesn't seem like any big deal, and the 2 isn't much so the 3 seems ok, then you've done two small sets so 5 is good to go, then you've rested up for your 10, etc.

But I might just stick with doing them partitioned, so 20 sets of 5-10-15 pull ups push ups squats.

I just looked up The Murph.

I won't type the expletive I thought upon reading it, but if I did, then this is where it would go, in all caps.

You neglected to mention the weighted vest. I keep staring at the number 100 before the words "pull-ups" and I can't get my mind around it. Like I can't imagine myself ever either having been able, or ever being able, to do that. I'm reading that some partition those but the Rx is uninterrupted. How many pull-ups are you doing?

Edit from that link:

In 2020, professional athlete Hunter McIntyre set a world record for completing the Murph Challenge in 34 minutes and 13 seconds.

I really figured some freak would have done it sub twenty, based on prior experience of seeing elite Fran times that were under 2:30 which I still find farcical.

My understanding is that the Rx is unpartitioned, not consecutive, meaning that one can break each exercise into sets but that one can't mix the exercises. Currently I'm practicing them partitioned. I can knock out sets of ten pull ups without too much pain, which I alternate with sets of five.

I plan to introduce the weighted vest in May, which will probably suck way more than I think it will.

Yeah going to stick by my earlier comment.

This time, it wasn't THAT bad

Ah but were you wearing your official ROGUE(tm) 25lb plate carrier with Punisher skull patch?

I have a mucho cheapo vest from Amazon that I intend to use in the final event, I might have been able to stomach the sticker on the Rogue vest then I realized it DIDN'T INCLUDE ANY WEIGHT, which is just insulting.

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