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We got into the Guinness Book of Records (also Blue Peter) and we're here to show you how.

While the majority of us were learning how to bake, during the 2020 lockdown Jason set himself an ambitious goal: to break a record.

The action sports athlete combined hard work with out-of-the-box thinking to create a new challenge of unicycling while simultaneously lifting a barbell.

He broke the record for heaviest single weight lifted by barbell overhead press while riding a unicycle by lifting an incredible 68 kg (149.9 lb) in April 2021, after eight weeks of continuous training for five days a week.

Now a proud representative of Guinness World Records 2023, thanks to Rod's magnificent photograph, which was also featured all over the press.

“The book is kind of part of the fabric of our culture, really, as I think everyone has memories of the Guinness World Records as a kid at Christmas.

“And to be a very small part of that, it feels a lot more meaningful than just breaking the record itself – that was very humbling, for one, and a real honour to be part of it.”

He said that as a child, the unconventional records stood out to him “a little bit more”.

“That would catch my eye and it probably has influenced me in some way, shape or form, and I cannot believe it is still relevant,” he said.

Just The Fitness Tip is Edinburgh's No.1 health and fitness podcast with Jason Auld and Rod Penn.

#131 is easily the worst thing we've ever put out.

Although it's been censored, it is explicit, mainly thanks to our guest Dan Scott of Clan Fit Edinburgh, so please don't listen if you're sensitive to mature,  crude and expletive riddled conversation.

We try our best to play a couple of fitness related games. Sometimes your best isn't good enough. We use our predictive text suggestions to answer some of the most pressing health & fitness questions.

We abandon that due to poor results and move on to play a vague version of Room 101, where two of us propose one thing about the fitness industry we wish to banish for eternity and the other decides which deserves the boot.

Get in touch if you want our predictive text suggestions to answer your questions by DMing us on Instagram; @JustTheFitnessTip @JasonProUnicyclist @Rod_Penn

Just The Fitness Tip, Edinburgh's no.1 health and fitness podcast, with Jason Auld and Rod Penn.

This is the quintessential guide to health and fitness from A-Z.

Jason & Rod go through the alphabet, defining, explaining and using in a sentence, a mixture of health & fitness terms with some ludicrous gym slang to have a good laugh at.

The aim; to provide you with a glossary of definitions to help in your training and to join in on a laugh with your gym bros.

AMRAP, Broscience, Compound Exercise, DOMS, Eccentric contraction, Full Range of Motion, Gluteal Amnesia, Hypertrophy, Isometric, Juicing, Kip up, Ligaments, Mirin’, Negatives, Overtrain, Plyometrics, Quality, Rate of perceived exertion (RPE), Soy Boy, Trapzilla, Upper Body Business, Volume, Work In, Xercise & Zigzagging.

Let us know if we missed out a term you've always wondered about and maybe we'll do a part 2.

You can get in touch by DM on Instagram; @JustTheFitnessTip @JasonProUnicyclist @Rod_Penn.

Just The Fitness Tip, Edinburgh's no.1 health and fitness podcast with Jason Auld & Rod Penn.

Were Spartan's ripped? How much could a Viking lift? Were Gladiators really vegan? What can we learn from the Ancient Greeks that can help us stay fit today?

Rod and Jason look at the fitness regimes and diets of ancient warriors and find out how they exercised for war, for functionality and for leisure.

Inspired by the History Channel show Ancient Warrior Workouts with Omar Isuf.

Fitness Tribalism; a support network or form of indoctrination?

On episode 128 of Just The Fitness Tip Jason & Rod look into Tribalism, what it is, how it affects society at large and it's increasing presence in the fitness industry.

We look at fitness & diet tribes like CrossFit and Spartan Race, vegans and ketos.

We read 4 tips on how to start a fitness tribe.

We learn about the UK based gym credited as eco friendly and ask; do we need our gym to be aligned with our political and social views

Do you have a fitness tribe? Do you need your fitness tribe?

Let us know your views by getting in touch via Instagram; @JustTheFitnessTip @JasonProUnicyclist @Rod_Penn

Just The Fitness Tip, Edinburgh's no.1 health and fitness podcast with Jason Auld and Rod Penn.

Is VR (virtual reality) & AR (augmented reality) the future of fitness?

On episode 126 of Just The Fitness Tip, Rod and Jason explore the Metaverse and how new technology is seeking to make fitness more accessible and virtual worlds more immersive. Including apps like Supernatural and Body Combat from Les Mills.

We ask, is this a step in the right direction? Is it a waste of time? Or at worst, could it be detrimental? Let us know what you think.

We watch Mark Zuckerberg's android-like conversation with developers, we read an article in the Washington Post where a journalist spends 24 hours in the Metaverse.

Get in touch via Instagram; @JustTheFitnessTip @JasonProUnicyclist @Rod_Penn

Just The Fitness Tip, Edinburgh's no.1 health and fitness podcast with Jason Auld and Rod Penn.

Urban dictionary defines Ego Lifting as;

The act of lifting heavy weights for the sole purpose of impressing other people in the room. This is usually done with awful form and gratuitous grunting noises.

John: "Look at that idiot ego lifting over there."

Mike: "Omg, what a tool. He isn't even using much weight."

But can ego ever play a beneficial role in our health, fitness and wellbeing goals? Rod & Jason ask the question.

We love hip hop here on Just The Fitness Tip and without ego, we'd not have some of the greatest rap lyrics in history.

What an effort segue into an epic rap battle between Rod & Jason, including some hilarious one liners about Jason hurting his balls and Rod being the face of the Quality Meats ad campaign.

Get in touch with us on Instagram; @JustTheFitnessTip @JasonProUnicyclist @Rod_Penn

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If you think your workout will make you lose weight, will it be more effective? Can one milkshake make you hungry or full based on what you're told?

#124 is all about mindset and specifically how what we believe about our workouts and diets can actually have a biological effect on our bodies.

Rod reads crap motivational Instagram posts and gets angry about 20 years old giving him life coaching. Do you find poorly translated quotes written on a stock photo of a mountain inspiring?

We're joined by special guest Dr Isi Okolo, a Paul Farmer Global Surgery Research Fellow at the Program in Global Surgery and Social Change (PGSSC), and master of public health candidate at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is also an obstetrics & gynaecology senior resident in the National Health Service in Scotland...and she's married to Rod, continuing our streak of guests who just happen to be friends/family.

Born and raised in Nigeria, Dr Isi explains how the phrase "Nigerians don't come last" has influenced her work ethic and intrinsic motivation.

Can a high achieving mindset ever be a negative?

Is there such a thing as "toxic positivity"?

Is there anything you can "Keep calm and" do, that you can't get on a poster or fridge magnet? We troll through eBay for answers.

Get in touch via Instagram; @JustTheFitnessTip @JasonProUnicyclist @RodPenn

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“The total effect of anything is a combined product of what you’re doing and what you think about what you’re doing.” - Dr Alia Crum.

Today's episode is inspired by the work of Dr Alia Crum, we look into her studies including how hotel housekeepers lost weight by just believing their work was exercise and her popular milkshake experiment; where participants actually produced more or less ghrelin (a hormone secreted in the gut. People in the medical profession call it the hunger hormone. When ghrelin levels in the stomach rise, that signals the brain that it's time to seek out food.) based on what they believed they were consuming rather than the actual nutritional value of what they consumed.

Dr Crum hypothesises, the effect of food consumption on ghrelin may be psychologically mediated, and mindset meaningfully affects physiological responses to food.

Part 2 of our drugs episodes, this time Jason & Rod talk about how high they've been.

The episode starts with Jason's classic anecdote about the pre workout supplement Craze and how it was found to contain methamphetamine.

They discuss their own personal experiences of drugs and chat in more detail about the potential useful application of psychedelics including LSD & DMT.

Mike Tyson asks "Do you know the toad?"

Jason mentions the massive amounts of MDMA he's taken yet fails to mention the recent clinical application of the drug in helping those with PTSD.

We never even got the chance to talk about weed.

We don't encourage you to take anything, not even supplements or medication that hasn't been prescribed by a professional. This is just two guys discussing their personal experiences, both good and bad.

Get in touch with us with any questions you have via Instagram; @JustTheFitnessTip, @JasonProUnicyclist, @Rod_Penn

Just The Fitness Tip with Jason Auld & Rod Penn, Edinburgh's no.1 health & fitness podcast.

Just the Fitness Tip, Edinburgh's No.1 fitness podcast with Michael Ulloa & Jason Auld.

If there's nonsense misinformation on health and nutrition, who you gonna call? Mythbusters aka Jason and Michael.

On episode 111 of Just the Fitness Tip we bust the health, fitness and nutrition myths most of us believe to be true.

Inspired by Jason's Mum claiming artificial sweeteners make you fat, we decided to take a look at other commonly held misconceptions and debunk them.

Is breakfast the most important meal of the day?

Do you have to be skinny to be healthy?

Are all smoothies and juices healthy?

Do you have to track calories to lose weight?

and the answer to the question we've all been asking; do carrots help you see in the dark?

If you're playing along at home, the info today comes from the article below.

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/biggest-lies-of-nutrition

Let us know if you need some health and fitness myths busted by getting in touch on Instagram; @JustTheFitnessTip @JasonProUnicyclist @MichaelUlloaPT

Do you count calories? Has counting calories helped or hindered your daily life? Interested in learning more but never knew where to start?

Episode 109 is all about tracking calories.

Jason and Michael answer your questions on calorie counting. Does it work? Is it healthy? Should you track daily or weekly intake? Can you track calorie expenditure and does it matter?

It's a comprehensive run down but if you have any questions that we didn't answer, get in touch.

We also chat about Veganuary and it's many alternatives. Michael tells all about his latest newspaper interview, including the question, how many calories does dog walking burn? Does the media focus on weight loss and appearance when covering health and fitness? If so, is that a positive thing?

And Jason considers starting an OnlyFans page but only if he can get 10 people to join. Are you one of those 10?

Get in touch with us on Instagram: @JustTheFitnessTip @JasonProUnicyclist @MichaelUlloaPT

Just The Fitness Tip. Edinburgh's no.1 health and fitness podcast. Presented by online PT and Nutrionist, Michael Ulloa and Extreme Unicycling superstar and Ninja Warrior coach, Jason Auld.

It's that time of year again, where we hand out awards to the health and fitness industries best and worst of 2021, it's The Tippees.

Jason & Michael chat about their most memorable moments from Just The Fitness Tip in 2021 before moving on to the esteemed categories;

Best Fitness Tip of 2021

Worst Fitness Tip of 2021

Worst Diet

Worst Influence on Health & Fitness

Jason's Worst Yoga Award

And the most esteemed prize in health & fitness podcasting;

The Anthony Lolli Award for Best Guest

Let us know, did the rightful winners pick up the prize or do you think someone or something was more deserving?

Get in touch on Instagram; @JustTheFitnessTip @JasonProUnicyclist @MichaelUlloaPT

Happy New Year to all the Tippers and here's to a fit and healthy 2022.

On episode 102 of Just The Fitness Tip, Michael and Jason read some of Steve Allen's tweets.

We look at some rubbish fitness equipment and laugh at their 1 star reviews.

We induct Gwyneth Paltrow into the hall of shame and take a look back at some of the worst products, methods, theories and advice Goop has tried to push on the public.

Get in touch on Instagram; @JustTheFitnessTip @MichaelUlloaPT @JasonProUnicyclist

100 episodes of Just The Fitness Tip. What an achievement. There was only one way to mark the occasion. Something we mentioned back on episode 24 and what we've been working on solidly since episode 94; we're joined by the legend, Mr Motivator aka Derrick Evans MBE.

He talks about how we hounded him to come on the show and tells us the hounding he did to get on GMTV back in the 90s, at a time when advertisers did not want a black man doing aerobics on morning telly.

He gives us rare insight into his personal life, how he was given up at 3 months old, moving to the UK from Jamaica and growing up in Leicester. He tells us the key things that took him from being a homeless single parent in his early 20s to training Gloria Hunniford, Lorraine Kelly, Eamon Holmes and being the face of fitness for a generation.

We hear about his recent work with charities like Social Bite and starting his Motivator Club aimed at getting older people moving and caring more about their health.

He tells us what he really thinks about modern fitness personalities like Joe Wicks & James Smith, his favourite Gladiator and the biggest scoop of all, what he keeps in his bumbag.

We are approaching 100 podcast episodes here on Just The Fitness Tip! In this episode we discuss what we've learnt since creating the podcast, and we let you know our 'secrets for success' in podcasting.

We also sample some of the best tip hop quote moments to round off the episodes before making a very special announcement for our 100th episode! We will be welcoming a guest we have both wanted on the show for some time, and we know you are going to love this one!

From the Just The Fitness Tip team, thank you so much for listening to our show and thank you for being part of this journey with us. We will be launching our new YouTube channel shortly, so keep your eyes peeled for even more health and fitness content from us both.

Yours in health,

Michael & Jason

On episode 96 of Just the Fitness Tip, Michael sets Jason the task of thinking of a Gladiator name that is camp but menacing.

We talk about Man Vs Fat, the football league where you must have a BMI over 27.5 and where losing weight weekly earns your team points.

Is it positive or negative? Should losing weight be encouraging over scoring goals?

We read about an overly complex way of knowing whether you should drink more water or not.

Do you struggle to hydrate? Do you find drinking enough water throughout the day hard work?

And we read about the trainer posting workouts to help you sex game.

Do you do any gym based exercise to improve your bed based performance? Is the term "sex game" a turn off? Should we chat more about functional love making fitness?

Get in touch and let us know your thoughts on all of the above. DM us on Instagram; @JustTheFitnessTip, @MichaelUlloaPT, @JasonProUnicyclist

#94 inspired by a tweet from James Smith about obesity of the vaccine we ask, should we take health advice from fitness professionals, particularly online influencers who stir up controversy?

We continue our hunt for Mr Motivator. Can you help us get him on our 100th episode?

Jason's film "World's Strongest Unicyclist" has been selected for the Scottish Short Film Festival.

Natalie Morris of the Metro is back with an article talking the benefits of drinking coffee.

We hear about a man who's Apple Smart Watch saved his life when he fell in the shower.

And the 100 year old power lifter who just set a new Guinness World Record.

Get in touch with us on Instagram; @JustTheFitnessTip, @JasonProUnicyclist, @MichaelUlloaPT

On episode 93 of Just the Fitness Tip, Jason & Michael read an article in the Hindustan Times about actress Deepika Padukone's latest Instagram post, leading to us ask the question; are our health and fitness expectations too far removed from reality?

Does social media cherry picking, filters, airbrushing and lighting create the false idea of an attainable body?

Are our favourite physiques achieved using steroids?

Are you aware of what is real and what isn't? Do you care? Are you happy for images to be posted as long as it's made clear how they've been achieved? Or do you think only unedited photos should be used in mainstream media and any use of performance enhancing drugs should be totally banned? 

Is Nate Diaz right when he says "Everyone is on steroids?"

Plus we find out what Gymnasiums have to do with being naked.

Mich's obsession with Dolly Parton's theme park, Dollywood.

The Metro's latest health and fitness product "hit list" including vegan meal prep; do you care if vegan food compares itself to meat?

And BREAKING NEWS: Jennifer Aniston starts eating bread again.

Do you eat carbs? Do you feel guilty about eating carbs? Why do celebrities care so much about carbs?

All this and more on the latest episode of Just the Fitness Tip.

Get in touch via Instagram; @JustTheFitnessTip @JasonProUnicyclist @MichaelUlloaPT

It's our first ever compilation episode. "Best of the Guests" revisits some of the best conversations, soundbites, facts, tips and laughs we've had with a small selection of previous guests.

We know what you're thinking, you've heard it all before right? Listening back, we found some gems that even we overlooked first time around which is easy to do after 91 episodes. Plus we give you our thoughts and feelings on the interviews.

Guests include;

Dr Giles Yeo; We talk to esteemed BBC presenter, podcaster and scientist about the genetics of bodyweight and how obesity often is not a choice.

Dr Natasha Larmie aka The Fat Doctor; Our most popular episode to date, Dr Natasha caused controversy in her outspoken beliefs on body positivity and bodyweight stigma. Is it possible to be overweight and healthy? Should there be more overweight role models in mainstream media?

School of Calisthenics; Tim & Jacko talk to us about exercise through play, how the fitness industry has made exercise boring and how you too can get more like on Instagram.

Claire Tracey; Strength & Conditioning coach at Gloucestershire University and former rower, Claire talks about her experience as a female in a male dominated industry, working with professional and amateur athletes both male and female.

Phil Learney; The PT Coach talks to us about how communication is the key to successful personal training, why Joe Wicks & James Smith have been so successful and the difference between a Soho PT & a Canary Wharf PT.

Anthony Lolli; Star of Amazon Prime documentary "Fat Lolli to 6 Pack Lolli", we find out how Anthony shed 125lbs in only 9 months in preparation for his first ever bodybuilding and how the tragic death of his trainer only weeks out, motivated him more to achieve his goal.

Lewis from Grams Edinburgh; Grams is a health food cafe in Edinburgh co-owned by our mate Lewis. He talks to us about his new cafe focused on encouraging people to try vegan food without the heavy-handed approach that puts some people off. He shares the difficulties of creating tasty dairy free, gluten free, meat free cuisine and some of the difficult customers he's faced.

Listen back to all of these episodes in our archives and let us know your favourite, along with the myriad of other guests we didn't have time to include.

We'll be back soon with brand new guests as well as Mich & Jason's usual musings on health, fitness and the silliness of the industry.

Get in touch on Instagram; @JustTheFitnessTip @JasonProUnicyclist @MichaelUlloaPT

Episode 89 kicks off with the question "should restaurants be made to put calories on their menus?" after it's teased that the government could enforce a new law on establishments with over 250 employees.

Do you think this will do more harm than good? Do you think it will help you make healthier choices? Let us know.

We talk mood-based workouts and how they can help you stay consistent with your training regardless of what life throws at you.

And of course, it wouldn't be Just The Fitness Tip if we didn't mock Gwyneth Paltrow for admitting she "broke down" and ate bread.

What's a quinoa cocktail?

Is she playing a character to promote her company Goop or is this real? Jason ends the show with a Tip Hop Quote inspired by the bread breakdown.

On this week's show we tackle the polarising topic of slimming clubs. With government schemes encouraging participation and the ease of access to these groups, this is a topic we are often asked about. 

Are slimming clubs a waste of money? 

Are slimming clubs worth the hype? 

Could they be a viable route for taking control of your health?

In this week's episode we also discuss the safety of supplementation for professional and recreational athletes, and we hear about a new form of yoga sweeping the globe.

Thanks for listening! If you have any questions about this week's episode, you can get in touch by dropping us a DM on Instagram; @JasonProUnicyclist, @MichaelUlloaPT and @JustTheFitnessTip.

Back on episode 50, we talked about funny but honest thoughts we've all had about the gym and you told us it was one of your favourite episodes to date. So in an effort to reproduce that magic but update it for 2021, here's Jason and Michael with some funny but honest thoughts we've all had about home workouts including;

Resistance bands

 Zoom classes

Which room do you exercise in? 

The problem with pets

and more.

Let us know your funny but honest thoughts about home workouts by dropping us a DM on Instagram; @JasonProUnicyclist, @MichaelUlloaPT and @JustTheFitnessTip