The main thing I do at the moment is lament how much time I don't have, due to work and kids, to exercise. I think the phrase is "disciplinary regime" and under late capitalism fitness becomes another one to fail at. I don't have the time in part because I prioritise my partner going to yoga, because she has a degree of depression and I know it's good for her mental health. The intersection of wellness and mental health under capitalism is another one of these strands we could pick at. I think of what appears to happen to her when she goes to yoga in Reichian terms, a parasympathetic expansion. She went last night and when she came back was pretty much a different person, full of optimism, ideas and affection (which included a discussion about finding time for me to get to the gym, funnily enough). I think Reich often nailed things that are simply under our noses and expansion and contraction is one of them. He saw it as fundamental to the life process. I recognise how much my own moods and mindset can shift when I'm expanded vs contracted.
I have dabbled with weights/Olympic weightlifting in the past and greatly enjoyed it. I also did Chinese martial arts for about 10 years or so, alongside swimming, running and calisthenics, though none of this was scheduled or measured. Obvs weights lends itself to measurement. Chinese martial arts are weird, great fun, but it doesn't really impact hard on your fitness neither if you're being honest does it teach you how to fight. These disciplines seem somewhat eclipsed by MMA etc though they have great meditative qualities which is perhaps their real strength. I mucked around a bit with "Reality based martial arts" - read Geoff Thompson et al and went to a few seminars. That's proper mad but interesting stuff. Gets you to ask questions any martial artists should think about, like what would it be like to engage with real violence, but ofc there's a load of performative idiocy to be found on that scene.
I have a set of old school "strands" at home which were a popular "physique" tool before the creation and commercial distribution of weights as a tool. I have bouts of using these a few times a week, alongside pressups, bodyweight squats etc but I find it hard to sustain, 'cos so much other stuff is occurring that fills up life.
In general I value the idea of strength. I'm quite big and I like being strong - though I'm a wimp in the gym (long arms and legs - problematic). I know Mark Rippetoe is a bit of a dick but I like the writing at the beginning of Starting Strength where he says something like "strength is the most important thing in life".