working out

[Kerous]

not sure why but it doesnt seem like my strength or fitness goes up what do you have to do

[Graygan]

When you work out, increase the time to 60 minutes. You won't actually work out that long, only characters with high repetition and high fitness will work out for that length of time. Once you hit 4 or 5 in fitness and strength, the amount of exp you need to get the next level drastically increases. It takes much more time per level to go up after that.

Each time your character does the exercise (A full up and down for Burpees for instance) you get a tiny bit of exp. After a bit of time, your character becomes too tired to continue. Sit down and rest. Then try again. Beware of the exercise fatigue and the agony that will result when your character first starts exercising.

After a LONG time of regular exercise, your character will no longer feel agony with exercise fatigue and will recover from the exercise fatigue more quickly.

Many find that eventually, doing all 4 exercises once per day at a specific time works out best for them. I prefer to have my guy get up at 5am and exercise, then head out to do the daily chores/looting/zed killing before the fatigue sets in. At that point, he comes home and does the house chores like cleaning blood, cooking, farming, reading, upgrading the fort, etc.

[Oragepoilu]

If you want both skill, do 20min burpee, then rest (use a chair nearby), and repeat. It's atm the fastest way.
Don't sleep early, because you won't be able to sleep with the massive pain and won't be able to exercice more too. Sleep when you are out of option.
That being said, it will take hours and hours and hours IRL to go past lv5 - so at this point either mod it, change your starting trait, or just don't do it it's a waste of time.
If it's in mp, errrr ... well, if you want to waste weeks irl for +1 carry weight it's up to you.