The Weekly Riff with Louise Green
The Weekly Riff cuts through fitness culture’s noise with real talk from Louise Green — award-winning coach, author, and size-inclusive fitness trailblazer redefining what strength looks like. In a world where most fitness spaces still exclude, this podcast offers something rare: a space that honours all bodies and holds the belief that your body is fully capable of strength, power, and performance — through every season of life, including midlife and menopause.
Each 20-minute episode dives into strength training, body image, mindset, and the deeper layers of showing up for yourself — without the toxic pressure to shrink, conform, or apologize. Louise blends expert insight, lived experience, and raw honesty to explore how we can all train for strength and self-respect, not validation.
Expect conversations that challenge stereotypes, dismantle diet culture, and invite you to rise — as you are, right now.
🎧 Tune in weekly for unfiltered, empowering riffs on what it really means to be strong — in body, mind, and culture.
The Weekly Riff with Louise Green
Episode 3 - Why Big Declaration Goals Usually Fail and What Actually Works
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Wanting something, isn't a plan. Every January, the same promises flood our feeds. New year, new habits, new discipline. And every year, most of them quietly fall apart.
In this episode of The Weekly Riff, fitness expert Louise Green takes a hard look at why traditional goal setting fails so many people. Spoiler: it’s not a motivation problem. It’s a structure problem.
Instead of focusing on outcomes and declarations, Green breaks down goal setting like a business, emphasizing scaffolding, systems, and sustainability. She explores why vague resolutions trigger burnout, how discipline has been culturally tied to conformity and shame, and what it actually takes to build goals that survive real life, low energy weeks, and inevitable setbacks.
This episode challenges the idea that consistency must look rigid or punishing to count. It offers a reframing of success that centers effort, recovery, and return rather than perfection. For anyone who has ever felt like goal setting wasn’t made for them, this is a grounded, feminist take on building change without self betrayal.
If you’re tired of starting over and ready to build goals that actually hold, this episode is worth a listen.
Louise Green is an award-winning coach with 20 years invested in working with women of all body sizes. She has coached thousands of women from all over the world, if you're ready take the next step in your strength, check out her coaching program: https://www.louisegreeninc.com/size-strong