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.
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Martial arts aren’t just a great way to get in shape; they can also help improve your self confidence and mindfulness, and introduce you to new cultures and friends. Many lessons taught in martial arts apply to other aspects of life.
We discuss the impact that film and television has had on introducing people to martial arts.
We look at the article from Medium.com on the 6 best martial arts for fitness:
We talk about our own experience with Boxing, Kick Boxing and Rod's 20 year practise of Capoeira.
We ask, which Martial Art can you eat a burger while doing? Which can you River Dance while doing?
And we end with, who would win these fantasy fights? Including Jake Paul and Mike Tyson, Bruce Lee and Muhammad Ali.
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#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.
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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.
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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
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Andrew McGregor is a filmmaker, Grammy nominated bagpiper, inventor, writer, chessboxing champion, entrepreneur, frequent TEDx speaker, Highlands games athlete, photojournalist, magician, Curator of MindshareLA.
He was named one of ‘LA’s 40 Most Interesting People’ by LA Weekly, was part of a team that won the SXSW Interactive Award for Activism, won the ‘Foreigner’ division of an Independence Day Chess Tournament in Kazakhstan, he was featured in the Sports Section of the ‘NY Times’, and he has even received a Certificate of Appreciation from LA’s City Council! Jason talks to Drew about how they met, how he got into Chess Boxing, his work putting robots on rats to find unexploded mines, his photo journalism work in Rwanda and how he ended up competing at over 20 Highland Games.
In his honour, we play a game where we guess if this feat of strength was performed by a person or a fictional robot.
You can check out Drew's work here.
Find out more about his Chess Boxing career here
Follow him on Instagram here.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Most of us know the unwritten rules about gym etiquette but some of us violate them anyway. Here's our top pet peeves and personal dislikes about gym behaviour. Let us know yours.
On episode 123 of Just The Fitness Tip, Jason Auld & Rod Penn are joined once again by an incredibly hungover Dan Scott of Clan Fit Edinburgh.
The Space Invader; always working out too close to you.
The Hoarder; collecting all the equipment and keeping it to themselves.
The Grunter; screaming their way through every set.
The Stare Master; that one guy always making prolonged eye contact.
and many more.
We also find out the nine most annoying gym habits according to a public poll by Joe.co.uk
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Gene editing is a pioneering area of science with the potential to eradicate diseases and hereditary genetic disorders using the bio technology known as CRISPR.
On episode #122 of Just The Fitness Tip, Rod & Jason speak to Wasequa Ayesha Mir, registered Nutritional Therapy Practitioner B.Sc, M.Sc, mBANT, rCNHC and owner of Nutrify You.
Nutritional therapy is the application of nutrition science in the promotion of health, peak performance and individual care. Nutritional Therapy Practitioner uses a wide range of tools to assess and identify potential nutritional imbalances and understand how these may contribute to an individual’s symptoms and health concerns. This approach allows them to work with individuals to address nutritional imbalance and help support the body towards maintaining health.
Wasequa discusses the biological and ethical repercussions of gene editing, including some of the topics discussed in the Netflix series Unnatural Selection.
You can find out more about Nutrify You by clicking here.
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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.
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Trigger Warning: Michael Ulloa is still away so time for a sex episode.
There's a lot of language and content only suitable for adults. We will be talking about sex as it relates to fitness, both seriously and entirely immaturely, so please do not listen with anyone you deem inappropriate.
Jason is joined once again by Rod Penn and Dan Scott and although we do have a laugh, there's some great discussions points around how fitness affects our sex lives and the benefits of sex on our overall health.
We ask;
Does fitness improve your sex life?
Does how you look affect your enjoyment of sex?
How many calories does sex burn?
Does pornography have a negative effect on our mental health?
Specifically, we ask Dan;
Is this sex doll worth $7,500?
What do you look for in a sex doll and why is it robot neck?
If you'd like to see the dolls mentioned in the show, click here. Sadly, it's not an affiliate link. Don't forget to clear your search history.
Rod is back with another quiz, this week all about porn parodies and regional masturbation slang.
And it's the return of the Tip Hop quote.
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In episode 118, we talk about how fascists are recruiting young white men through online fitness communities.
Vulnerable young men, who are likely in search of mentors, comradery and self improvement, are being targeted by far right groups and recruited into these hateful movements. We chat about the role fitness has played.
Rod Penn is back with another quiz, this time asking us, are these items of fitness clothing used by fascists to represent their believes. All we'll say is, burn your Lonsdale tops immediately.
We're also joined by special guest Dan Scott of Clan Fit Edinburgh who tells us about his new gym as well as discussing homophobia in the fitness industry, including the story of Jake Daniels, Blackpool FC player who has become the first active male professional footballer to come out as gay.
Follow Dan on Instagram; @ClanFitEdinburgh
And book in for a pole class with him at clanfitedinburgh.co.uk
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Episode 117 of Just The Fitness Tip is the first without Michael Ulloa, as he takes a break for the time being. But in his place Jason is joined by two special guests.
Award winning filmmaker and Capoeira master, Rod Penn and Cece Ho, yoga instructor and reiki energy practitioner.
Rod kicks us off with a quiz; are these forms of Yoga real or fake? Play along at home.
Cece gives her opinion on the unfortunate abuse of power by some self proclaimed "gurus" and we ask whether yoga has been appropriated purely for fitness at the expense of it's cultural and spiritual significance.
Listen to Cece on her podcast, Witches & Weirdos here.
To find out more about Cece's work as a yoga instructor and Reiki energy healer, check out channel22.co.uk
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On episode 115 of Just The Fitness Tip, Michael Ulloa is replaced and upgraded by guest host Lewis from Grams & Plant Bae.
Jason chats with Lewis about the new legislation that will see calories added to menus. As a business owner, Lewis has a strong opinion on how it will affect hospitality but also whether it will do the job it seeks to do, help us all make healthy food options.
We read the Metro article that covers the potential risk to those suffering from disordered eating and read the opinion of psychologists and nutritionists as to whether this will actually help any of us stay in shape.
Do you know the seven personal wellness style? Neither did we.
Culture Connoisseur, Social Connector, Sensation Seeker, Active Adventurer, Spiritual Harmoniser, Playful Pioneer, Reclined Relaxer.
Lewis and Jason try to find the style that fits them. Let us know yours.
You can find out more about Grams here, Plant Bae here. Follow them on Instagram: @GramsEdinburgh @HeyPlantBae
Calories are being added to menus – here’s how it might affect you and how to cope
Why understanding your personal wellness style matters – and the seven different types
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