I Investigated: How Taylor Swift Stays Fit Enough to Perform For 3 Hours Straight

Life on tour is grueling (or so I’ve heard), but Taylor Swift could’ve fooled us with her seemingly effortless stamina throughout her 3-hour “The Eras Tour” show (complete with seamless outfit changes on stage, might I add). It got me wondering how she performs her way through 44 hits from her 10 studio albums without so much as breaking a sweat or popping one of the sequins off her red-and-sequined-snaked Reputation look. So naturally, I scoured the internet for every tidbit I could find about her wellness routine.

How does she sweat it out? What does she eat in a day? Is she just like us when it comes to self-care? Thanks to various sources including Swift’s interview as TIME’s 2023 Person of the Year and her trainer’s April 2024 interview with Vogue, we have some insight into how she prepped for the demands of her tour. Read on for a breakdown of T-Swift’s health and wellness standbys. Alexa, play The Tortured Poets Department.

Confessing that she used to tour “like a frat guy” when she was younger, Swift didn’t mess around this time. “I knew this tour was harder than anything I’d ever done before by a long shot,” she admitted to Time. “I finally, for the very first time, physically prepared correctly.” Her trainer Kirk Myers, who prepared her for “The Eras Tour,” told Vogue that they approached her training “with the mindset of a professional athlete” where she has an “off-season” and “on-season.” (Perhaps she got some inspo from Travis Kelce?)

When she’s not on tour (or her “off-season”), Swift works out up to six days a week for “sometimes two hours a day” to prepare for the grueling tour. Six months before the first show, Swift hit the ground (or the treadmill) running. “Every day I would run on the treadmill, singing the entire set list out loud,” she shared with Time. “Fast for fast songs, and a jog or a fast walk for slow songs.” So basically, she was doing her own version of the Taylor Swift treadmill workout.

In addition to training her body for the tour, she also had to train her dance moves. For that, she enlisted the help of choreographer Mandy Moore and trained for three months before the first show. “I had three months of dance training because I wanted to get it in my bones,” Swift said. “I wanted to be so over-rehearsed that I could be silly with the fans, and not lose my train of thought.” When she’s on tour (or her “in-season”), each show was a three-hour grueling workout in itself, so she limited additional workouts to two times a week with a focus on conditioning. “Taylor trained during the entire tour,” Myers said. “In-season training was more about maintenance, and so it was more like stability, mobility, biomechanics.