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From singing during cardio sessions to giving up alcohol, Taylor Swift has been working hard to ensure she’s in shape for her current Eras Tour.
The pop star, 34, is taking a break from the international leg of her sold-out tour and has been photographed enjoying a romantic getaway with boyfriend Travis Kelce in the Bahamas.
The 13-time Grammy winner showed off her toned figure as she donned a chic yellow bikini on the beach.
The Blank Space singer pulled her long blonde hair into a high ponytail and was seen frolicking in the sea with Travis before lounging on the sand.
The artist has previously spoken about how much she has put into her exercise regime to ensure she can always perform her three-and-a-half-hour shows, which often fall on consecutive nights.
Pictured: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce put on a PDA in the Bahamas earlier this month.
By the time her Eras tour concludes in Vancouver in December, Taylor will have visited five continents and performed 152 shows.
Here FEMAIL delves into Taylor Swift’s fitness secrets, from weight training to her intensive dance routines.
Singing on treadmills
In December 2023, Taylor Swift beat King Charles and Vladimr Putin to be named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year, after the Eras Tour granted her billionaire status.
In the accompanying interview, the star revealed that she knew before the world tour that it would be “more difficult than anything she had done before” and began training six months in advance.
As such, the star and her trainers decided to improve her cardio to increase Taylor’s overall fitness level.
she told him publication: ‘Every day I ran on the treadmill and sang the entire repertoire out loud.
“Fast for fast songs and jog or fast walk for slow songs.”
Pictured: Taylor Swift on stage in Singapore. By the time her Ages of Her tour concludes in Vancouver in December, Taylor will have visited five continents and performed 152 shows.
Pictured: Taylor Swift seen singing on a treadmill in her Apple Music ad, which launched in April 2016.
Taylor has previously opened up about enjoying running and listening to upbeat music.
She told WebMD in 2010: “For me, running is about playing a bunch of new songs and running to the beat.” It’s also good because it allows me to find a gym wherever I am.’
If her 2016 Apple Music ad is to be believed, this has long been part of Taylor’s workouts.
In April 2016, Taylor starred in an Apple Music advertisement in which she fell off a treadmill after happily singing along to her playlist.
Taylor, who was 26 at the time and wearing workout clothes and full makeup for the ad, first complains in a voiceover, “Man, I hate cardio.”
Then you use your fancy iPhone to choose the perfect workout song, following its suggestions and choosing Jumpman by Drake And Future.
After enthusiastically singing a song, Taylor appears to hit the moving belt of the treadmill before being thrown off the machine, which the star claims also happened to her in real life.
Taylor posted the video on Instagram and tagged it: “Based on true events.” #TAYLORvsTREADMILL’.
Three months of dance training.
Pictured: Taylor dancing during the Eras Tour. The star started training six months before the tour.
Elsewhere in her interview with Time, Taylor revealed that she underwent three months of intensive dance training for the Eras Tour.
She explained: ‘I wanted to get it into my bones. I wanted to rehearse so much that I could goof around with the fans and not lose my train of thought.
Although the star admitted that choreography was not her ‘strong suit’, Taylor claimed that Mandy Moore ‘completely changed her relationship’ with dancing.
Speaking to Dance Dish, Mandy explained how she spent 10 days in Phoenix with Taylor before the first show, where they ‘blocked’ the performances.
Speaking of the difficulties they faced, the choreographer explained: ‘In three days we barely managed to finish the 46 numbers and it is also a video floor so there was no way to have notes (…)
‘(Taylor) is a superstar. She works hard and isn’t afraid to get grades if she makes a mistake.
What’s more, the tour’s choreography has proven so popular that fans have begun learning it for shows.
Weight training
Pictured: Taylor Swift seen leaving a gym in New York in September 2016. The star has previously spoken about how she likes to run to fast-paced music.
In recent years, Taylor Swift has been seen leaving Body by Simone, a gym founded by Australian personal trainer Simone De La Rue.
The gym relies on the ‘BBS’ (Body by Simone) method, which is a mix of high-intensity dance and weight training.
In May 2019, the singer was also photographed participating in a late-night gym session in West Hollywood while working on her album Lover.
The singer showed off her long legs in a pair of black shorts while lifting weights with trainers at The Dogpound.
In her interview with Time, Taylor revealed that she also has to take into account training on days when she’s not performing.‘
Explaining how exercise has become a key part of her routine, she added: “I know I’m going to be on that stage whether I’m sick, injured, heartbroken, uncomfortable or stressed.”
‘That’s part of my identity as a human being now. If anyone buys a ticket to my show, I’ll play it unless we have some kind of force majeure.’
Give up alcohol
Taylor Swift is seen holding fans with her boyfriend Travis Kelce following a lunch date in Los Angeles following her trip to the Bahamas.
What’s more, Taylor’s slender figure is also partly due to giving up alcohol.
In her interview with Time, the star revealed that she doesn’t like to drink during the busiest periods of the tour.
And he added: “Doing that program with a hangover, I don’t want to know that world.”
“I was very disciplined about drinking.”
However, Taylor made an exception at the Grammys in February, where she won her fourth Album of the Year award.
In the Bahamas, Taylor and Travis were seen splashing around in the turquoise waters together and lying on the sand getting a tan.
At one point, the pop star planted a sweet kiss on her boyfriend’s lips and at another, the Kansas City Chiefs tight end lovingly wrapped his arm around her shoulders.
Pictured: Taylor Swift seen hugging Travis Kelce after the Kansas City Chiefs won the Superbowl.
It seemed like they had spent the day in a private area of the beach as no other tourists were seen around them.
After resting on the sand, the couple headed to the water holding hands.
The two stars laughed together as they cooled off in the ocean, and at one point, Taylor excitedly opened her mouth in response to something Travis told her.
During the first few months of their romance, Taylor and Travis spent much of their time traveling to see each other amid their busy schedules.
But things have slowed down for them lately, as their latest leg of the Cruel Summer singer’s Eras tour ended in early March and the athlete’s soccer season came to a close last month.
After a wild six months filled with busy schedules, constant travel and cameras surrounding their every move, the couple was said to be planning to ‘play house’ inside their $25 million mansion in Beverly Hills.
“They are enjoying movie nights at their home theater, catching up on movies and shows they missed,” a source said. Us weekly earlier this month.
‘They can finally rest and intend to spend quality time together and with friends and family.
“This is the first time that they both have no commitments and they both really want to be a normal couple and play house.”