A bunch of short video snippets of various band, dumbbell, kettlebell, and barbell moved here https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoVY_9j19hdpDmIQzkGGdx77IQd_Fd99c if that helps.
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Thanks for the videos! Good thing you sent those before I started trying the kettlebell exercises - I would have been doing those (dangerously) wrong for sure!
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This is my favorite on technique:
And another that helped but I’m tall and can’t move like she does:
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Things seem well covered already, but I have a pull-up bar to which TRX straps are secured, one 35 pound kettlebell, and a pair of push-up platforms. There’s very little that I can’t hit with that setup.
Ok, I have a squat rack too, but that’s pretty far from minimalist, and you can do all kinds of leg work with TRX straps and/or a kettlebell.
I also highly recommend any of the Xtreme Cardio Kettlebell series of videos by Keith Webber, though I think they’re only available in dvd format.
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Ooooh! I love this channel! I am built like this and so it is super neat for me to be able to see what I could look like if I were fitter. Thanks I am really going to do this! It’s not Coach Chad’s strength training, which is where I started with this post, but this looks like something I can definitely do. Yay! (Hopefully it’s not way harder than it looks 
) Thanks so much for the recommendation!
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Glad you like it. You can get crazy fit with kettlebells, enjoy!
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Got some instructions for leg exercises with trx (or rings)?
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I just got these from amazon:
at the suggestion of my physio.
They’re strong enough to hold a big kettlebell so i don’t reach down too far for deadlift.
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Just to throw another option in here…
I’ve been using these classes and have loved it so far. There’s a lot of “TrainerRoad-isms” to their philosophy. (Minimum Effective Dose is the biggest one). This is the same person in @WindWarrior’s second video but now she’s recorded a series of classes that are more about consistency than pure, lift heavier and heavier, strength type workouts.
There are 60 min and 30 min workouts. I’ve been doing 3 of the 60 min per week and it’s truly been great. For the first time, I feel like I have a strength program that still allows for bike and run workouts without making me feel completely trashed every week.
If you do sign up, they’ll even reach out and do a short zoom with you to talk through how best to progress, plus they have a FB community for their users, too. Overall, I’ve been really happy.
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Thanks for both of these great ideas @asteryx and @tropicalcycling! I’ve been away for a week, so am just seeing these now. I had seen kettlebells in the past and thought I was not at all interested, but with all of these suggestions, I’m pretty excited about it now.
Also, I saw one video pointing out that it is important to be super careful doing the lift where you hold the kettlebell goblet-style at chest level and lift it straight overhead. Maybe a goblet lift? Anyway it was mentioned that you should not let your concentration lag because of the danger of slamming the weight into your chin… Maybe that should be obvious, but I was really glad to have it spelled out for me and am not sure I would have thought of it.