Country music superstar Carrie Underwood knows how to work a crowd and how to work hard to look and feel her best. At 41, Underwood prioritizes moving her body every day and making healthy choices to meet her fitness goals.
The eight-time Grammy Award winner has plenty on her plate these days. Between her Las Vegas residency, “Reflection,” multiple creative ventures and raising two children, she’s always on the move. But that doesn’t stop her from prioritizing her health.
When it comes to her fitness and diet routines, Underwood has adopted a “do what you can” mindset. No matter how busy she gets, she still finds a way to move and nourish her body.
“I mean, just like everybody else, you fit it in. You fit in fitness wherever you can, right?,” Underwood tells TODAY.com. “Some mornings I get to have a good long workout, some mornings it’s a quick walk and some mornings, it’s nothing,” says Underwood.
Underwood says her favorite workout is circuit training, which involves rotating through various exercises— often a combination of strength, resistance and high-intensity cardio — targeting different parts of the body, often with short intervals in between.
“I feel like at the end of the day or at the end of my workout, my whole body has got gotten something,” says Underwood, who launched the Fit52 app in 2020. Underwood says she loves that circuit training routines are customizable and easy to modify if you are short on equipment or time. “There are (ways) to make it approachable and simple … (but) maximize results,” she says.
Underwood says she likes to make workouts as enjoyable as possible. Music, unsurprisingly, is a major part of what helps keep her motivated and push through tough workouts.
“I feel like it can definitely change your mood and help you get in a few more reps or move a little faster, and kind of give you that extra energy that you need,” says Underwood.
Just like the rest of us, there are days when she can’t squeeze a workout in. Over the…
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