“I try to do the Murph challenge with the girls every Memorial Day as a tradition to honour those who defended us,” he explains in the caption, referring to the CrossFit workout, believed to be the favourite of Michael Murphy, an American army officer who died in Afghanistan in 2005. Soon, the tradition moved beyond CrossFit, a workout based on high-intensity functional training. “Anyone can do a Murph,” believes Dr Appel, who co-opted both his 90-year-old father, as well as his 9-year-old daughters. All one needs to do is scale and modify the challenge, to make it more inclusive, he implies in the interview with The Jedburgh Podcast, in May. “People who are not fit will get injured,” he says, questioning the idea of fad challenges that hit social media.

Source: The Hindu June 09, 2023 08:40 UTC