Travis Kelce Needs to 'Get My Body Right' for 2024-2025 NFL Season

Travis Kelce is kicking his fitness into high gear now that the NFL season is coming to an end.

“The biggest thing was getting my body right,” Kelce, 34, said in a Saturday, July 27, press conference midway through Kansas City Chiefs training camp. “Last year was a lot of stress on my body and I mean, it is what it is. I've had more snaps than a lot of guys, if not anybody in the NFL, in the last five years. [or] six years.”

He continued, “I'm very lucky, and I'm proud of that. But, I know it's affected my body, so making sure my body gets that rest and that ability to train hard and be able to go through a 17- to 20-game season.”

In addition to football practice, the tight end works with dozens of personal trainers “all over the place.”

“I have my personal PT and, on top of that, I'm the best in the world here in Kansas City,” Kelce said Saturday.

Kelce has been open about his training program.

“Right now everything was like high reps, low weights,” he said The stack in a 2015 YouTube video, specifically discussing his weightlifting program. “I throw two 45s and I hit it about eight to 10, and I just do more of the grip alone to really work the shoulders, so that when I throw the weight in there, I don't hurt it or anything like that.”

Kelce was dating a pop star Taylor Swift from the summer of 2023 and since then they often hit the gym together. In March, they were seen outside Kirk Myers' Dogpound Gym in Los Angeles. Myers has worked with Swift, 34, for several years, even helping the pop star hone her skills before her. The Eras Tour.

“The way he works is amazing. “Other people might throw up or lie down when they train like him,” Myers recalled. Vogue in April. “We have asked to train him to The Eras Tour in the sense of being a professional athlete. There was an 'off season' when he didn't visit and an 'in season' when he did. If he's not visiting, we're in the gym six days a week, sometimes two hours a day.”

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Getting ready Seasons — which began in March 2023 and wraps up in December 2024 — Swift would perform the entire set list while running on a treadmill.

After Swift and Kelce started dating, she became a fixture in the crowd at her concerts. Last month, Swift took Kelce to task for asking him to “put it down [him] to work” and appear on stage. During a June concert in London, he helped “revive” Swift for her time Ministry of Victimized Poets change.