Jacked Girl University

Jacked Girl University

Hosted by: Aimee Bartolo

Join Aimee Louise for inspiring journeys, training secrets, and empowering stories. Welcome to Jacked Girl University Aimee is a personal trainer, online coach and qualified ISSN sports nutrition specialist with...

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107 - Do this before you drop your calories

You know what makes fat loss more fun? Eating as much as you can whilst losing weight!  In this episode I’m going to help you do just that. By tuning in you’ll have access to the exact checklist I run through with my...
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106 - Deficit wrap up and thoughts going into maintenance

In today’s episode I go through a quick wrap up of my deficit phase and speak to a few points that you haven’t seen me speak to on social media.   They include the need for “low calories”, longer phase time frames and...
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105 - What I do when I can’t be bothered

I don’t know about you but there are a lot of days I just cannot be bothered. However, I also know I’m not a magician and I’ll need to do the work required to get the results I want.    In this episode I take you...
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104 - I overate in my deficit phase. This is what I did in response

In this episode I touch on two points. The main one is an insight into how I responded to a situation where I consumed more than my targets. And spoiler alert, it’s the same strategy I use with my clients.   The...
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103 - Something better than “listen to your body”

Listen to your body can get confused for following the path laid out by your initial thoughts on a matter. But when it comes to being an adult, this would spell chaos in any area of your life, so why would it be any...
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102 - Fitness influencers, mental health and the myth of perfect

This week I saw a video of a fitness influencer who said that her job was destroying her mental  health. One of the biggest points she made was that the pursuit of “perfection” was inauthentic and taking a toll on her...
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101 - Overcoming the fear of maintenance calories

Feel like you’ve been banging your head against a brick wall with your physique progress even though you’ve been in a deficit for ages? It could be time for you to commit to a maintenance phase to help fuel you better...
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100 - This one question will help you make better decisions with your training, nutrition and lifestyle

Any good coach appreciates that working towards physique outcomes is not black and white and the process is thick with nuance. Any athlete knows that it can be tricky to make the best decisions for ourselves because...
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99 - “I’ve finished my deficit, now what?”

No one wants to have put in all the hard work required to lose fat only to gain it all back.  Equally, no one wants to have to exist on low calories for the rest of their life. In this episode I take you through 5...
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98 - The pain cave

This is a concept I heard from elite utlramarathon runner Courtney Dauwalter who’s done some truly epic shit.    Before I heard her coin this phrase, it was a concept I’d started to recognise as being really helpful...
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97 - Ozempic

Are weight loss drugs the panacea of the future or do we really want something else? In this episode I discuss the benefits and drawbacks of what life might look like for healthy individuals who think the sound of...
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96 - The recipe for female physique transformation

Have you ever felt like you saw the most progression with your physique and in the gym in the first few months you started lifting? But maybe not so much progression since? Driving physique results of muscle gain and...
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