Online spin classes recommendations

[raeya]

Hi all

Anyone able to recommend some good online spin classes please - either pre-recorded or live? Free or paid. Ideally not a commitment of spending monthly just as and when. Not pelaton as wasn't really thinking of spending that much.

Love dance music so kind of want that sort of thing and classic club songs.
I did have les mills but didn't know the songs so couldn't in my head dance along and pretend I was on a night out/getting fitter for a night out!!

Thanks

Peloton is great. I pay £12 a month for the app and don’t have their bike. You can filter for the type of music you want in the class and the variety they have is excellent. You also get access to all the other classes they offer…bike boot camp, strength, HIIT, yoga etc…I tried a few free online spin classes but none were as good as what the Peleton app offered.

Ah, I use Peloton, and only £12 a month, I think the content is excellent. I think you can sign up for a free trial?

Alternatively, I belong to MoveGB, and there are various price points (again a free trial as well), and some online spin sessions. www.movegb.com/search?q=Spin

Another Peloton app user here, well worth the £12 per month. They usually offer a 30 day free trial and it's very easy to cancel before you have to pay - they even send you an email to remind you that your 30 days is nearly up.

StudioSweat on YouTube have some good free classes.

Ah thank you all. I thought pelaton was a lot more expensive than that (£40 plus...maybe the quote I saw was with the bike as well or something).
Thank you - I'm off to sign up for a free trial. £12 is great, being able to filter music is also great; really need the right music to get into it!

If you get the Peloton bike then it’s more but the app is really good. Lots of other classes too and so many different instructors, you bound to find something and someone you love

Kayleigh Cohen is great!
Classes vary in duration and difficulty, and she's done a live Saturday class (45-60mins) every week since December last year.

youtube.com/c/KaleighCohenCycling

There's some good ones on Global Cycle Network on youtube which are free. They're good because they explain what level of intensity you should be working to, where your hands should be and the instructors are British and encouraging but not mad screaming people (I found some of the American ones too much!!)

Global Cycle Network have some great classes but I think they are aimed at outdoor cyclists that are doing some training indoors. Some serious workouts and not sure I'd have the stamina for them
They are world's away from a fun spin class and certainly don't have the dance music and club classics that the op said she was looking for.

That’s the sort of class I prefer @nbee84 we have “club spin” and “studio cycling” on our gym timetable and I definitely prefer the later.

Les Mills are great. 3 different types of classes. A typical spin(RPM) , a HIIT 30 minute version (Sprint) and a virtual version (Trip)

I have the Peloton app and I also have Les Mills on demand which I much prefer.

The endless 'come on peloton' , 'are you with me peloton' etc and the non-stop namechecking of cyclists who are doing there 100/200/500th cycle with 'bubbybubcakes happy 100', 'detroit mama, 200th ride today, congrats' thing drives me absolutely bonkers. Its like exercising with a load of toddlers who all need individual attention from the teacher.

Les Mills on the other hand, particularly the RPM ones, just get on with it, have much slicker production on the music and co-ordination front, and I prefer the other classes they have such as body pump and attack, to the extra classes peloton has.

Its interesting what you say about the music on Les Mills, as I think its better than on Peloton, but then I'm very uncool so I wouldn't know a club hit if I tried!

I also really like the Studio SWEAT cycle classes that are free on youtube, not as slickly produced, its literally pointing a camera at an instructor in a real class, not a studio, but they have very personable instructors.

Finally which is a 8 minute tabata spin class (free on youtube) is absolutely amazing for increasing cardio fitness, but it literally knackers me out for the whole day, so I have to do it at night before bed. Its that leathal

@RelentlessForwardProgress - I'll definitely have to give that tabata a go!

I know what you mean about the name check ins from the instructors, I'm not a lover of that either. Some instructors are worse than others and I always hit the button for 'more music, less instructor' But I do prefer the music from Peloton. Love that you can search by genre and can do 60's, 70's. 80's etc rides. I've done a Coldplay ride, Queen, Spice Girls, Greatest Showman and more. I even did a Disney ride this morning 😆 Whereas I find with Les Mills I might like 2 or 3 of the tracks and not like or know the others. I do like LM The Trip but mostly do Peloton as I find them a bit more 'fun' (but still a really good workout) and listening to Cody makes me laugh! I love the bike bootcamps so that I can combine cardio & strength.
I subscribe to both as I love Bodypump and Bodycombat and both subscriptions still cost me far less than my gym membership used to.

@nbee84...that is so true about several subscriptions still being cheaper...my gym membership used to be £84 a month and I often used to put my stuff in the locker and then go outside for a run so that was well worth the money!

Thank you everyone - haven't been back on for abit so nice to see all the recommendations. Checking it all out. Even the 8min lethal one. 😅😅