If you’ve seen Katy Perry lately, you know that this 40-year-old is looking seriously jacked. The most recent news on the ‘Firework’ singer is that she’ll be sent into space on Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket, joined by Bezos’s fiancee Lauren Sanchez, CBS presenter Gayle King, former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen, and film producer Kerianne Flynn.
The singer also recently filmed a new ITV concert special called Night of a Lifetime, and she knows that people are talking about how buff she looks. ‘I hear that my biceps were going around the internet,’ she joked while filming her special, per the Daily Mail.
So how did she get so strong? Here’s what Katy Perry has shared about her health and fitness routine.
Katy ‘hates’ working out, but still stays active
Despite how strong she looks right now, Katy isn’t that into the gym. ‘I hate working out. I actually do’, she said during her concert special. ‘You know what I love to do? I love to dance, swim and do things that don’t feel like working out.’
That’s pretty much always been Katy’s deal: In 2023, Katy told Women’s Health that she enjoys snowboarding for a cardio burn.
Katy even once joked that her ‘exercise routine is being half-late to the workout.’
‘I’m always like, “I’m so late, too bad I can only do a few things”‘, she told the Wall Street Journal in 2021. ‘The guy who works me out is like, “Yeah, right.”‘
She trains for her concerts
Performing can take of energy, so Katy makes sure she’s ready to go when she steps onstage.
‘I have so many marks to hit, and so many things that I have to make feel effortless and easy and natural, but they’re actually very technical. I’m hanging on wires, I’m masquerading as a Cirque de Soleil performer many of the times’, she told WH. ‘I can fall into the pit hole of losing all the muscle or losing all of the motivation or just stamina in the in-between.’
So Katy focuses on fitness outside of her shows. For her, that can mean playing pickleball with friends and weight training three to four times a week. She’ll also do CorePower yoga classes.
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‘I sweated the most I’ve ever sweat’, she told WH of the yoga class. ‘We were all texting afterwards and I was like, “My mood is unusually happy right now.”‘
Her diet and exercise routines have changed since becoming a mum
Katy’s priorities have changed since having her daughter, Daisy Dove, in 2020.
‘I wanna give any extra moments I have to being present and being a mother’, she told WH. As a result, working out ‘ends up on the back burner here and there’ more than it did before having her daughter.
But Katy said that she’s happy she became a mum when she did. ‘I did it at 35. And I really feel like I checked off a lot of my life boxes and was ready to do that, to be of service as a mother does’, she said. ‘I’ve seen so many views of so many different mountains, and this is the best view.’
She’s joked about Ozempic rumours
Most celebrities who lose weight these days are faced with rumours they’ve used diabetes drug Ozempic, and Katy is no exception. She made fun of the rumours in October by giving friends who went to her 40th birthday party goodie bags that included an empty mini-syringe emblazoned with the word OzempiKP, according to the Daily Mail.
But an insider told the Daily Mail that Katy has just been ‘way more disciplined’ about her diet and exercise routine lately.
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‘She has been working out more because she wants to do some shows to support her upcoming album, so now is the time to look great’, they said.
She’s also followed her fiancé Orlando Bloom’s routine. ‘They eat the same and work out the same’, the source said. ‘She has cut out tons of processed food and doesn’t drink that much. She has been looking incredible because she is sticking to the new routine.’
This article originally appeared on Women’s Health U.K.
