Locals participate in grueling workout to honor fallen SEAL's sacrifice
BOARDMAN, Ohio (WKBN) – Memorial Day isn't just about cookouts and time off from work. It is also a time to honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice.
On Monday, a local gym found a powerful way to pay tribute.
At Train Station Fitness, sweat was the symbol of that sacrifice. 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 workout includes a one-mile run followed by 100 pull-ups, 200 push-ups, 300 air squats and another one-mile run.
The challenge isn't easy, but that's the point.
'Honestly, this workout, I think about those guys in Afghanistan — that treacherous terrain and everything that they would've gone through. When you're suffering in the last couple hundred pushups and it's getting real nitty-gritty, you've just got to push through,' said Cpl. James Briceland, a U.S. Marine Corps. veteran.
The Murph workout has become a Memorial Day tradition across the country, bringing communities together to remember fallen heroes — one rep at a time.
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