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Murph 2025 is almost here – Take the Challenge!

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Memorial Day is right around the corner. It's a day to honor those who have died in our country's service. It's also the annual Murph Challenge, which honors Navy SEAL Lt. Michael Murphy, who is recognized with the Medal of Honor. The Murph Challenge is a CrossFit hero workout that is not easy, but it's doable if you train.

This year will be my fourth year participating in the Murph Challenge. Although I'm not into CrossFit or cardio, I think it's an incredible workout with a lot to offer people wanting to get into shape.

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For me, the Murph covers all the bases:

  • Cardio – Short explosive running with the entire workout timed with minimal rest.
  • Full body calisthenics – Pull-ups, push-ups, and air squats.
  • Weights – The entire workout is done in a weighted vest.
  • Honors a war hero – Hats off to a U.S. hero.
  • Supports a foundation – Proceeds from the official Murph Challenge support scholarships for military families.
  • Workout from home – You can go to a CrossFit gym and take the challenge or do it from your home gym. You don't need much equipment: a chin-up bar, weighted vest, stopwatch, and a nearby running track.

If you want to take the challenge, you can sign up here: Official Murph Challenge link. A word of caution: don't be intimidated by the workout. Like anything else, you can work up to it. I turned 55 this year and beat my best time by 4 minutes. Take the challenge if you want to push yourself and your coworkers while doing good for others.

P.S. Happy Memorial Day, Remember and Honor

Are you ready for the Murph Challenge?

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Lydon Solutions is inviting you to take part in The Murph Challenge this Memorial Day and do something great for your health and, at the same time, help support our vets!

What is the Murph Challenge?

The Murph Challenge is considered a hero workout in the CrossFit community. It's an exceptionally tough workout where people from all over the world compete and post their times.

The event honors LT. Michael Murphy with proceeds benefitting the LT. Michael Murphy Scholarship Foundation.

Who was LT Michael Murphy?

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Michael Murphy was a Navy Seal killed in Afghanistan in 2005 and later awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his sacrifice. LT. Murphy risked his own life to save the lives of his teammates. If you are not familiar with his legacy, a Hollywood movie called Lone Survivor tells his heroic story, starring Mark Wahlberg and Taylor Kitsch as LT. Murphy.

What is the Murph Challenge?

The Murph is a timed workout that will test your physical limits. It involves:

  • 1-mile run
  • 100 pull-ups
  • 200 push-ups
  • 300 air squats
  • Another 1-mile run

This workout is especially hard because participants perform all the exercises in a 20 lb. weighted vest! After completing the workout, you can post your time to the Official Worldwide Leaderboard.

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Tips to prepare for Murph

While this is no shortcut to completing a Murph, a few tips might help your training.

  • Give yourself enough time to prepare. Even if you are in good shape, the workout is strenuous.
  • Thoroughly stretch before and after each training session.
  • Stay adequately hydrated and consider a pre-workout to keep your energy levels up.
  • If you are new to the calisthenics portion of the workout, practice without the weight vest to familiarize your body with the movements and the pacing.
  • Once you are comfortable with the exercises, introduce the weighted vest slowly, like on casual walks, to get your body used to the extra weight and the overall feel.
  • Splitting the workout into manageable sets might help you complete the challenge. Typical partitioning would be twenty sets of five pull-ups, ten push-ups, and twenty air squats.
  • Hole hand grips are an excellent investment to prevent hand injuries from the bar when doing pull-ups.
  • Learn how to do kipping CrossFit pull-ups, which can be easier than traditional pull-ups.

Ready to take the challenge?

While this workout is incredibly challenging, the opportunity to test our grit and support our vets was something we at Lydon Solutions felt compelled to do. We hope you, your friends, and your co-workers will accept the challenge with us and support this great cause!

Visit themurphchallenge.com to register and find out more about LT. Murphy and the Foundation.

Welcome to the new and improved LydonSolutions.com

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We are excited to launch our new LydonSolutions.com website with a redesigned mobile-responsive theme and several other enhancements. You may have noticed that our ConstructionViz.com site also recently underwent a minor refresh. Read on to learn more about what’s new on both sites.

What’s New on LydonSolutions.com 

Web technology has come a long way since we launched our original site in 2009 and a redesigned version in 2014.  Not only have monitor screen sizes kept getting bigger and wider, but the portion of our web traffic from users on phones and tablets continues to grow. We also wanted to make it as easy as possible for web visitors to learn about our products/services, events, and resources.

With these goals in mind, our redesigned site is optimized to provide the best experience possible with room to grow for several more years.

Fully mobile-responsive for today’s devices

The new Lydon Solutions website has a brand-new design that should look good on the latest widescreen monitors while scaling down gracefully for comfortable viewing on mobile devices.

A spotlight on events

Our team attends multiple conferences and events each year not only to show off the power of Construction Viz and our other solutions, but because the invaluable feedback we receive from real-world construction professional shapes and improves our products. So we created a new Events section to let the community know about upcoming events we will be at and provide a way to schedule meetings with our team.

Magazine style blog

Our team regularly puts out blog articles on topics ranging from product updates to tips and resources for construction project management teams. Our revamped Blog section boasts a bold magazine-style article template, a dedicated blog search function, category pages, and related/suggested articles.

A focus on growing our team

The key to the success of Lydon Solutions is the outstanding people that make up our team. Our updated Career section will help us find the best and brightest talent to take our solutions to the next level.

Other under-the-hood updates

Many other changes lie behind the scenes, like using the latest and most secure web technologies, sitewide search, an improved contact form experience, various security enhancements, interactive widgets, enhanced administrative features that will make it easier for us to update the site, and more.

The Refreshed ConstrucitonViz.com 

We also refreshed ConstructionViz.com, the information hub for our construction project management solution, which we launched in 2016. The site now features a bolder home page, an expanded section for our growing lineup of Construction Viz Apps for Microsoft SharePoint and Office 365, and numerous design tweaks. Like our Lydon Solutions site, the new ConstructionViz.com also underwent the same sort of under-the-hood updates to improve performance, security, mobile-responsiveness, and administration

The above lays the groundwork for a couple of exciting enhancements on the horizon. First, we’ll be implementing a blog/news section on ConstructionViz.com to highlight product news and updates. Second, as we announced earlier this year, we are working on a new marketplace and streamlined installation process for our Construction Viz Apps. When the marketplace and updated installers are in place, any user will be able to select, buy and install our apps in a few simple steps. No IT expertise required.

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