A Doctor Did 30'Murphs' in 30 Days and Tracked His Heart Health

A Doctor Did 30'Murphs' in 30 Days and Tracked His Heart Health
Philip Ellis
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Dr. Alex Hajduczok did the CrossFit Murph workout every day for 30 days and shared what he learned from his data about the impact on cardiovascular fitness.
Alex Hajduczok, MD is a doctor in cardiology training with a passion for fitness. He shares with
Men's Health what kept him going as he spent a whole month in 2020 pushing himself through CrossFit's infamously exhausting Murph workout, and how tracking his own heart rate led to new insights about how the human body adapts to training.
When the pandemic hit back in March last year, I decided to channel all the craziness going on in the world into a personal challenge: completing the Murph workout every day for 30 days. First and foremost, I wanted to see if my body could physically hold up. It’s a pretty brutal workout to even just perform once (usually taking 45 minutes to an hour to complete), and sometimes it takes the body several days to recover. I thought that maybe after several days or after a week that I would just feel so beat up that I wouldn’t be able to continue. Deep down I told myself that even if I got to this point, I would try to push through and still make it happen regardless of how sore I was.

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