I find often the idea that one must “go to the gym” and use extraordinary expensive equipment to build strength or choose the ultimatum of doing nothing is promulgated.
A better balance maybe achieved by cooking and adding work out sets in between watching over food through body weight exercises or simple weight sets. It’s cheap and highly effective, while exercising proprioceptors that are not targeted by using machines with fixed degrees of freedom.
Pushups, squats, lunges, planks, burpees, jumping jacks, and deadlifting a bar or something heavy is effective and can be done while waiting on food on the stove or in the oven.
I used to do exercises following the RCAF's (Royal Canadian Air Force) exercise plan called the 5BX. It was pretty effective. It involved pushups, backstretches, stretches, lunges, jumping jacks, and also a bit of cardio by running/sprinting but it involved about 15 minutes. You didn't need any equipment and the exercises were about finishing sets within a prescribed time. It is based on progressive resistance such that one could go to a higher level.
I should just the will to get started as it's been a while. But my own metabolism is eating up my calories so that gives me less motivation to get back with the program.
But as it is, I am still busy but I'm seeing my muscles start to sag.