I ran a mile on the flat on a treadmill in 7.30 and thought that was tough, 6.25 alongside the rest of this crazy workout is insane @kleinhound you are one mental and tough dude!
Now I’m going to have to up my cardio game and see if I can just do the mile on its own in that time forget the rest haha
I’ve accepted that I’m too big for that nonsense so I’ll settle for having the ability to run in general. I need to keep moving so this extra weight doesn’t feel heavy.
And that is truly a valid point. I was reading up on running speed as how to increase it, and some people physiologically may not be able to do it without losing a lot of mass
Somewhere along the way I read an article that sited injury risk and reward. I think it was in the NSCA’s Tactical Strength and Conditioning Journals. (Edit: Found it).
Running five days per week vs three days per week increased injury risk by 225% with no difference in VO2max. Running 45 minutes vs 30 minutes three days per week increased injury risk by 125% with no change in VO2max.
I use that to guide me and realize that I can choose one of two paths:
Both are good pursuits, but hopefully only one improves my chances of staying healthy. As long as I’m still chasing strength goals, there is no reason to try to be guy #1 in that scenario. In my head, it seems cool. I’d love to be the Real World Tactical guy, but it’s just not feasible. I still have some work to do to get up to 30 minute running workouts three days a week, though. Damn.
Here’s another fun fact since you’re a compact little beast and I’m a big oaf.
Body Mass Bias, Allometric Scaling, and Military Fitness Tests
Suggestions to fix the problem for testing were to have weight classes. They also found that adding a 30kg loaded vest eliminated the body mass bias.
I think the take home message is that if (and that’s a big if) I were to get in as good as shape as you then you’d still smoke me. If we each wore a 30kg vest then it would level the playing field.
I enjoy science that supports my poor performance on standardized tests. 
Yer but their deadlifts are massive
Murph #11 means add the weight vest for the reps
Felt way slower and way harder.
Runs have improved though so overall time was about 34 mins
Pretty happy with that
Will undoubtedly be sore tomorrow
Theres a cool book called “Scale”, (Geoffrey West) that addresses this in fascinating detail. Compares a mouse to a blue whale to a t-rex to a human. Digs into the math and science of the above. I highly recommend it if you’re at all nerdy.
Lol most people’s pushups and situps would be level at 0! Average ppl, and most I was with in the Navy, I mean. Not most people here.
Jesus. You’re a beast!
Thanks brother, appreciate it! So far, I have remained unkillable as advertised. 19 more murphs to prove me wrong haha
And yet armor and ammo don’t scale down to their bodyweight… Can someone tell the Army?? Actually, I think they’ve updated their PT test since I got out.
@kleinhound you’re a freaking animal and it’s awesome. Be careful when you add a vest - I used to run in kit all the time and I do think it increases the wear and tear on your joints. You won’t notice it for day 1, but you don’t want years of what it looks like you want to do to be anticlimactically taken away. On the other hand, and to totally discount myself, the mindset to not care and push it hard in all your gear anyway is almost a prerequisite… so, I guess, either way?
Will do mate! These next ten days will help me gauge what the ‘true’ murph experience will be like. And I figure I probably will have accumulated enough fatigue by the final ten that I won’t be able to push hard enough to truly fuck myself up…but we’ll see
This log made me think of it - you guys ever see Obi Vincent on YouTube (clearly, my YouTube is going way up as I’m stuck at home)? His stuff is pretty much a bodybuilding workout plus a WOD it looks like, and he’s ridiculous jacked.
You are amazing little Puppy,
You’re an outstanding good runner it seems. That second mile awesome.
Maybe when you start running with the vest, one day first run vest second day second run.
for 4 - 6 days and then full on Murph for the rest.
I will check him out
Active armed offender scenario day today
Was awesome to do some tactical movement in full kit and ABVs today. I personally did really well and got some great feedback, as always points to improve on, but overall my drills, op safety and shooting were great.
Also, I saw first hand the importance/advantage of being physically fit.
We wore HR monitors and during the entire exercise my HR never went over 130 bpm. Everyone else was around 160-180.
Instructors said that it was evident by both my communication and my decision making that I was in control of my breathing and heart rate. I’ll continue to work hard.
Two and a half more weeks and it’s grad time
Murph #12.
I weighed 82.1 today
This is the biggest and best condition I have been in, both performance and aesthetic wise. I feel like I can see my body changing every few days
Mate, looking great (some homo 
). If your legs get any bigger you will need new shorts.
That’s awesome! Does your place actually care about fitness?
Your quads look like they’re painfully swollen.
You also make me hate myself because I’m no longer lean and defined and I’m in poor shape.
You have body dismorphia man. You ARE big and lean and in good shape
You’re killin’ it man. Excellent work.
