Kane Brown has changed the way he trains. The 32-year-old singer said he turned his whole garage into a boxing gym, then traded a bodybuilding routine for athletic work that includes hurdles, box jumps and sled pushes.
He said the shift came after a stretch in which bodybuilding made him look the part but did not make him feel better. Brown hired a coach after learning more about bodybuilding and diet, said he was eating 2,000 calories a day, and still found that his knees hurt. He said he wanted something that helped him move instead of just fill out a frame.
The timing matters because Brown is talking about the change now, in the middle of a year when his music remains active too. He released the single Woman in March, and his 2025 album The High Road reached seventh on the Billboard 200, keeping him visible even as he reworked the way he trains at home.
Brown said the garage setup is fully built out, with a ring and every bag he needs. He said the move was driven by a simple preference for function over appearance. Bodybuilding, he said, left him feeling sluggish, even if he “got super ripped.”
The change also seems to have given him back movements he had written off. Brown said he can walk up stairs now without his knees hurting after basketball, can stop on a dime without his knee buckling and can jump again without worrying he will tear something. He said he does box jumps every day now, a sign that the workout is no longer about holding shape but about rebuilding movement.
That is the part that makes this more than a celebrity fitness update. Brown said he grew up as a multi-sport athlete in Georgia and Tennessee, ditched booze and learned to perform without alcohol, and now wants his body to match the way he works on stage. He said plainly, “I don’t want that,” when describing the old version of training he has left behind.
What he has not said is how long he plans to keep the garage gym routine or whether the new training will change the way he tours. For now, the answer is already in the workouts themselves: Brown is training like someone who wants mobility back, not just muscle.
