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Taylor Swift’s trainer drops singer’s ‘tailored’ workout plan that requires ‘mindset’ of a ‘professional athlete’
Taylor Swift’s personal trainer, Kirk Myers of celebrity-favorite gym Dogpound, revealed what it takes to get the pop superstar in top shape for her Eras Tour.
“It’s tailored,” the fitness expert cheekily told Vogue of Swift’s workout plan in an interview published Friday following the release of her 11th studio album, “The Tortured Poets Department.”
“We approached her training for the Eras Tour with the mindset like a professional athlete. There was an ‘offseason’ when she wasn’t touring and ‘in-season’ when she was
Myers explained that ahead of the tour’s opening night in March 2023, Swift worked out at Dogpound “six days a week for sometimes two hours a day.”
The longtime trainer said that in this “offseason,” he had the “Look What You Made Me Do” singer focus mostly on strength, conditioning and core work, which is the “key to help her while singing [and] dancing.”
Myers advises anyone looking to follow in Swift’s footsteps and do these kinds of exercises to hone in on their breathing.
“I know it’s outside the box, but fully breathing through workouts helps strengthen your core,” he explained.
Myers said Swift took it upon herself to work on cardio on her own time — outside of the gym.
The Grammy winner previously revealed that she would sing her entire 44-song Eras Tour setlist while running “fast for fast songs, and a jog or a fast walk for slow songs,” prompting Swifties to give it a try.
Myers shared that, more recently, Swift has continued to get workouts in “during the entire tour.”
“We would average two times a week,” the Dogpound founder, who has been working with the superstar for a decade, explained of how her schedule shifted during the “in-season training