OnlineIndoorCyclingInstructorCourses

online indoor cycling (also known as Spinning ®*) courses

Start training immediately to become a professional, indoor cycling instructor with this innovative online study option which also gives you the unique advantage of professional personal tutor support from top indoor cycling presenter, motivational coach and course creator Debbie Kneale.

This innovative online certification option offers you the ultimate in flexible, convenient and cost effective high quality indoor cycling training - you can start immediately, study at times to suit you, review the content as often as you like wherever you have an internet connection.

All our online courses are carefully designed to be intuitive to use for those who may have considered themselves 'computer challenged' and are also developed with all learning styles in mind.

We are confident that our online study option will offer the same high quality, high value and excellent support which our 'live' students and companies have always enjoyed and guarantee you comprehensive, professional online learning resources and personal tutor support second to none!!

The content of the online course mirrors as closely as possible our 'gold standard' live 2 day indoor cycling instructor course, with some additional underpinning knowledge to refresh existing instructors and support new instructors alike.

The online course delivers most up to date safety recommendations for indoor cycling and techniques you can use effectively on all the popular indoor cycling bikes available, just as our live courses do.

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Enrol here now and start training to become a professional indoor cycling instructor -make the most of this exciting and rewarding way to keep fit and help others do so too!

 

How exactly does the online study & certification work?

1. Enrol - Once you are enrolled you have full access to all online and downloadable resources, you can work through the contents at your own pace, at times and places to suit you and as often as you like. 

2. Study the online content - The content contains a comprehensive mix of video, audio, text, pictures and other resources, including unique memory aids to help guide and ease you effectively through the learning process. You can also email your tutor directly from each page of the online course and are encouraged to do so should you have questions on any aspect - we are here to help if needed!

3. Practice what you have learned - The unique memory aids and other printable resources will help you take what you have seen, heard and learned from the online content and consolidate that learning by doing in practice.

4. When you are ready you are then invited to demonstrate your competence via the assessments - There is a written and a practical assessment element to complete this certification and comprehensive step by step guidelines are included to help you prepare for and achieve assessment success. Follow these and it should be easy! 

For the ultimate in flexibility the written assessment is taken online at a time to suit you** and the practical element is assessed via video submission. Full details and tips for success are included in the online resources and your tutor is there for support if you have any questions at all.

5. Get your results and feedback and congratulate yourself! Lets keep the positive thought here :-) Your support tutor will contact you initially via email with results and feedback on your written and practical assessments soon after you submit each.

6. Receive your certificate and start teaching as a professional indoor cycling instructor! Your certificate will be posted out to you within a week of your successful result along with useful tips to help you get started as a professional indoor cycling instructor :-)

 

 

FAQ's - What do I get with the online training & certification? 

1. Full 24/7 access to comprehensive online course contents, including additional online and printable support resources. Enrolment lasts for one year. 

2. Professional personal tutor support from top indoor cycling presenter, motivational coach and course creator Debbie Kneale.  

3. One written and practical assessment** with marking and personal individual feedback is included in the course fee and the Ideal Performance Group Indoor Cycling Instructor certificate will be posted out upon successful completion.

4. Ideal Performance Indoor Cycling Instructor certificate holders can get professional insurance cover* to teach indoor cycling and so go on to work as employed or self employed indoor cycling instructors. 

 

*Public liability insurance is required by indoor cycling instructors to teach professionally in the UK. This training satisfies UK insurers strict criteria for access to such and details are given on the training. So whether you want to add this highly popular class and profitable income stream to your current instructor portfolio of skills, or you are a cycling enthusiast or professional looking to share you enthusiasm and earn whilst doing so, you will be able to obtain insurance to teach indoor cycling upon successful completion. We also welcome students outside the UK to this training and you may find requirements to teach vary in your country. Do feel free to contact us if you have any questions prior to enroling.

**Students who are UK REPs members must have their written assessment invigilated and will be responsible for any additional fees incurred for such. Full details are included in the online course contents. Please feel free to contact us with any questions prior to enroling. 

Any student who does not demonstrate the required competencies first time in either written or practical elements will receive feedback to help them move forwards to successful completion. Second or further assessments, if required, incur an additional assessment fee of £25 per assessment.

 

 

Enrol now and start becoming a professional indoor cycling

instructor with online resources and support second to none!

 

Most valuable? "The excellent feedback and very prompt replies regarding any queries allowing me to qualify in the shortest time possible."

"This online training course is an excellent way of completing the qualification without having to travel far and give up any income by attending a full weekend practical. I believe that the support and feedback is just as good as it would be if student and tutor were face to face. Would recommend as excellent - content and presentation too." Darren
 

 

Questions? Feel free to email here or alternatively call UK landline on 08450 94 10 52 if you prefer to talk :-) 

For more details of each Ideal Performance indoor cycling certification course options, please follow the relevant links below...

Ideal Performance Group Indoor Cycling Instructor Course ONLINE

Ideal Performance Group Indoor Cycling Instructor Course - 2 day live 

Ideal Performance Group Indoor Cycling Instructor Course - 1 day blended

Ideal Performance advance indoor cycling instructor workshops

All training can also be delivered at your venue and bespoke training can also be written to your requirements.

Please contact to discuss any aspect of corporate or bespoke training and how we can best serve your needs. 

To help ensure you become a confident, professional indoor cycling instructor, Ideal Performance Group Indoor Cycling Instructor Courses include:

  • How to screen clients properly for indoor cycling suitability
  • Setting up bikes correctly and coaching others to do so effectively
  • Performing and coaching ALL the essential indoor cycling techniques used
  • Safe, advanced choreography and creative teaching variations
  • How to identify and rectify potential problems in order to maximise gain and minimise risk for equipment as well as anatomy!
  • Selecting moves and adapting for different levels of cycling skill and fitness
  • Putting different classes together - including class design, preparation and format, take away choreography and classes ready to teach immediately and never be short of ideas!
  • How to avoid the mistakes made by many less educated indoor cycling instructors
  • When and where to incorporate suitable stretch options
  • How to source, choose and use music most effectively for group indoor cycling
  • Psychological impact of different teaching styles
  • Effective communication and advanced teaching skills
  • Legalities, especially insurance and music issues and practical solutions
  • How to positively prepare yourself for your teaching role and develop within it
  • Essentials of anatomy and physiology, including energy systems, principles of training, fitness theory overview and biomechanical considerations in relation to indoor cycling
  • Written and practical assessments

 

All delegates receive comprehensive training resources to support their learning and appropriate certificate upon successful completion.

Please note - our indoor cycling instructor training certificates do not expire!

Because the principles and techniques we teach are sound and thorough, they will continue to be relevant and valid over time, so we not insist that you redo training or take additional training with us to remain qualified, as some providers do!

 

We do offer opportunities for instructors to refresh and advance their skills when they choose to and many come back to do more with us because they valued the training, not because they had to to remain qualified!

We believe good indoor cycling instructors will continue to learn of their own volition and we support this.

 

 

We encourage and listen to all feedback, because it is important to us that we keep giving you great value and enjoyble learning experiences!

Some recent samples of feedback are included below...

"IPT indoor cycling - so good I did it twice. THANK YOU AGAIN" (IPT 2 day indoor cycling certification - Freelance instructor) 

"Fantastic 2 days, well worth coming and experiencing Debbie's teaching and motivational techniques, I learnt a lot about life as well as indoor cycling" (IPT 2 day indoor cycling certification - Corporate instructor)

"I realised so much of what is already taught is unsafe. I came on the course after some prior learning, thinking I might only learn a few other things, instead the information and teaching on this course is SO invaluable! Also the NeuroCycling is fantastic! Thank you!" (IPT 2 day indoor cycling certification - Corporate instructor)

"I went from dreading teaching my first class to looking forward to it in the space of 2 days" (IPT 2 day indoor cycling certification - Corporate instructor)

"Debbie's inspiration kept you going even when you thought you would not make it. She encouraged, coached advised, but never told you off, just put everything in a positive way so that you felt it was all possible. Couldn't have done it without you. Make more courses like this available because it is easier to learn and achieve this way." (IPT 2 day indoor cycling certification - Freelance instructor)

 

 

*Indoor cycling is often referred to and known by many people as Spinning ®, but officially Spinning ® is a trademark created by the Spinning ® originator Johnny Goldberg (Johnny G) In conjunction with cycle makers Schwinn, Johnny G created the first specially built indoor cycle and instructor program, which he trademarked as Spinning ®.

When Spinning ® very quickly became hugely popular other manufacturers began creating their own version of the original Spinning ® bike and associated instructor programs  - the quality, duration and content of which are known to vary greatly. Originally Johnny G worked with Schwinn, so only they officially held the rights to call their courses Spinning ® instructor courses and their classes Spinning ® classes. Later Johnny G moved his Spinning ® instructor program and name to Mad Dogg Athletics and so now only they hold the right to use the Spinning ® name for instructor courses and classes.

Unless you have done the official Johnny G Spinning ® indoor cycling instructor training you should not call yourself a Spinning ® instructor, or your classes Spinning ® classes. The term 'indoor cycling' (or similar) should be used to describe all other cycling classes and instructor programs.

In fact Spinning ®, Spin ® and Spinner ® are all trademarks. Many venues who advertise they run Spinning ® classes or courses or advertise they have a ''Spinning'' or a "Spin" studio, may not always be using the term correctly and may not offer official Spinning ® classes or courses, but instead be using the term to cover any use of fixed gear indoor bikes in a group cycling class format.

Whilst we would not encourage you to use the words Spinning ® or Spin® to describe classes, courses, studios or yourself as an indoor cycling instructor unless you have permission to do so, it is our experience that when asking about 'indoor cycling classes' or 'indoor cycling courses', very often venues and staff initially say 'No, we don't have that here' but if you then go on to ask the same person if they have 'Spinning ® classes or courses' there, the answer is often 'Yes, we do Spinning here'

All 'Indoor Cycling' instructors, do be aware of this when looking for classes and work or you might find you are missing out by not applying at centres who tell you they do not have indoor cycling there, when really they do, it is just that they only recognise 'indoor cycling' as Spinning ®'!