Ed Sheeran Opens Up About Hitting Gym, Losing Weight and Targeting Six-Pack; Says, ‘I’ve Never Had a Six-Pack, But I’m Trying’
Ed Sheeran has revealed he is working towards achieving a six-pack for the first time. Speaking to Andy Cohen for Sirius XM’s Small Stage Series, he explained that after gaining weight last year, he committed to an intense gym routine to lose a stone and decided to see how far he could push his fitness goals.
Grammy-winner Ed Sheeran is working towards getting a six-pack for the first time. ‘Play Made Me Fall in Love With Fun Again’: Ed Sheeran Releases New Album After Wrapping Up Mathematics Series, Explores Global Collaborations.
The singer-songwriter announced his goal while speaking to Andy Cohen for Sirius XM’s Small Stage Series.
Sheeran said: “I’d put on a load of weight last year, and I was like, ‘I’m gonna hit the gym heavy, try and lose a stone’. As I was doing that, I was like, ‘I’m gonna see how far I can take this’.”
He continued: “I’ve never actually ever had a six pack in my life, and I was like, ‘I’m gonna see if I can do it’.”
The “Perfect” hitmaker said sticking to his target has been a challenge, reports femalefirst.co.uk.
He said: “I keep messing up, ’cause I keep being out somewhere being like, ‘I’ll have a couple of beers’, and it just, you know. But I’d say it’s going all right. I feel like I’m in the best shape of my life.”
Sheeran, who shares two daughters Lyra and Jupiter with wife Cherry Seaborn, first spoke about his fitness transformation in 2019
Appearing on the Behind the Metal podcast, he said: “I stopped smoking three years ago, and ever since then started exercising. I love it. I started doing it because when I stopped smoking, I was very aware that my lungs were so full of that I needed to clear them out.”
He added he was not a fan of gyms and turned instead to outdoor exercise.
Sheeran added: “There’s nothing like fresh air to really give you a clean out. That’s, for me, the main reason why I started doing it.”
The singer had earlier said he had "no balance" in his life, as he put his music over his personal happiness for years.
"I think in the first decade of my career I was intensely unhappy as I had no balance, I was just work, work, work. And yes, everything was hyper-successful, but it was hyper-successful because I had no personal life at all.
"Work was everything. I think finding that balance with getting married, having a family, living around my friends... Being able to spend time with my friends and family — that has now become 70 percent of my life, and work is like 30 percent. Before, it was 100 per cent and zero anything else," Sheeran told The Sun newspaper. Ed Sheeran Recreates Shah Rukh Khan’s Iconic Open-Arm Pose on ‘Sapphire’ Song With Hip Hop Group Quick Style, Instagram Reel Goes Viral.
He added: "The balance of getting to exist as a human being rather than just a pop star machine — that would be my measure of success."
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