Taylor Swift Ran 8 Miles Per Eras Tour Show, Prepped 6 Months

The Eras Tour was a physical challenge for Taylor Swift.

In a new episode of the 36-year-old pop superstar’s Disney+ docuseries The End of an Era, she opened up about physically preparing to perform for more than three and a half hours on stage every night during the Eras Tour.

Before embarking on the blockbuster run of 149 shows, the longest Swift had performed on stage was about two hours and fifteen minutes. “I’ve never worked out this much in my life. It’s horrible,” she said. “I really had to up my game in terms of physical training.”

The “Karma” singer started preparing her body for the challenge long before kicking off the Eras Tour in March 2023. “Six months ahead of my first rehearsal, running on the treadmill every single day at the tempo of the songs that I was playing while singing them out loud,” explained Swift, noting that her 1989 and Reputation albums specifically “are very high cardio.”

Each show on the tour saw the Grammy winner perform about 45 songs and move all around the stage — as well as the stadium, as she’d fly through the air for “Delicate.”

Needless to say, doing the show wasn’t exactly a simple physical task. “Anything’s hard when you’re scaling a stage that goes the entire length of an NFL stadium,” Swift said. “I think I run like eight miles in a show.”

Elsewhere during the episode, the “Shake It Off” singer spoke about the “complicated” process of her many backstage costume changes, each of which was done in under two minutes.

At one show, Swift had a harrowing experience after the Evermore portion. “I trip over the hem of my dress. Bust my knee,” she recalled.

“I skid the palm of my hand off. Hobble into the quick-change room. Blood’s coming down my hand. I’m changing into the Reputation bodysuit, the skin that’s flapping off, I just pull it off, more blood. They don’t have a Band-Aid back there,” she adds.

Still, Swift “wasn’t late. Wasn’t late for the intro of that song.”

Fans noticed the injury after a couple of days. “They’re like, ‘Oh, her palm’s gone,'” she says, before joking, “I was like, I am not acknowledging this. What? Nothing’s wrong. That’s always been like that.”

The third and fourth episodes of The End of an Era premiered on Friday, Dec. 19. The final two episodes will hit Disney+ on Dec. 23.