My Fifth Day of Exercise

At 127 hours for the year, I am well into my fifth consecutive day of exercise for the year. I'm still working towards a goal of doing 500 of all moves in one workout -- at which point I think I can claim some baseline level of fitness. However, I came across this article the other day which has got me now mixing up the longer and shorter workouts The relevant advice (Tip 31 of 16):

1. Limit your workouts to 30-40 minutes. Though the tendency of some people who really want to get a lot out of their workouts is to spend a lot of time at the gym, the truth is that after 30 or 40 minutes, the benefit isn’t as great. To go that long, you’d have to lower the intensity of the workout, and that means that you’re spending too much time working out. It’s better to work out at a higher intensity for a shorter amount of time.

I can see that, and I like the idea. Although I must say that the middle part of my longer workouts -- where I do the sets with the highest number of repetitions -- tend to be pretty intense. But they have an extended warm-up and cool-down before and after. I'm going to keep doing that variety at least one a week while working on doing some more high high-intensity work. I also might go ahead and move up to a heavier hammer now for the intensity workouts -- instead of waiting until I complete the 500, which was the original plan. That will give me the chance to try out tip number 8: Heavier Weight.

The 16 ideas strike me as mostly pretty good (although the list is a bit repetitious). I'm doing several of those things now and, as noted above, thinking about trying out a couple more.