Lenny Kravitz is doing something rock legends were never supposed to do: hit his early 60s with an eight pack, tour the world, and still treat the stage like a contact sport.
While many peers are dialing it back, Kravitz is launching global Blue Electric Light tours, headlining Champions League finals and packing Las Vegas residencies, all while looking like he has cheated the aging process entirely. His secret is not some mysterious Hollywood injection. It is a brutally consistent mix of hard training, raw-vegan eating, and almost monk like discipline that just happens to show up wearing leather pants.
The ageless rock god era
Born in 1964, Kravitz is now in his early 60s, yet he openly says he is in the best shape of his life and “in the best shape I have ever been,” a claim backed up by his long career arc in rock music and recent tour interviews. He insists he’s never been fitter. Recent interviews and viral workout clips show a man who looks closer to 35 than 60 plus, curling dumbbells in skintight leather, veins popping, hair flying.
He is not keeping that body for the mirror. Kravitz is still delivering high energy sets at major events like the 2024 UEFA Champions League final kickoff show, sprinting across Wembley’s massive stage while blasting through hits like “Are You Gonna Go My Way.” His pregame performance in London showed exactly that. He has also committed to intense runs of shows in Vegas and around the world to support his Blue Electric Light album, including late night residencies that would drain performers half his age and crowd interactions like bringing kids onstage to jam.
The uncomfortable truth for the rest of us: what you are seeing is not Photoshop. It is work.
The pillars of Kravitz’s fitness philosophy
1. Ruthless consistency when nobody is watching
Kravitz has been training seriously since the late 1990s with Miami based coach Dodd Romero. Their core formula has barely changed: fasted cardio in the morning, weight training during the day, then more cardio at night so he is “burning all night,” as he told Men’s Health and later detailed in his island workout breakdown. He credits that routine with giving him the stamina to play three hour concerts well into his 50s, and he has only pushed harder since.
That discipline has ramped up, not down, as he has aged. In a 2024 interview he casually mentions finishing a full day of rehearsals, getting home near 1 a.m., then going to the gym for a 90 minute session at 2 a.m. because the workout had not been done yet, telling The Guardian he once trained at 2am after rehearsal. He is clear about why: aligning body, mind and spirit is non negotiable, and he refuses to coast on past glory.
He also insists he is doing it without hormone replacement or testosterone, saying he stays in this shape “100 percent” through food and action. For a 60 plus rock star, that is a provocative stance in an era where many entertainers quietly lean on pharmaceuticals to look “ageless.”
2. Simple, savage strength work with huge volume
Despite the mystique, the Kravitz workout is almost aggressively old school. Men’s Health published his full body plan from trainer Dodd Romero and it reads like a punishment from a 1970s football coach.
- Dumbbell curls: 5 sets, starting at 50 reps, then 35, 21, 14, 10
- Dumbbell bench press: same brutal 50-35-21-14-10 structure
- Bodyweight squats: up to 77 reps in the first set, tapering down across 5 sets
- Pull up position knee raises: 4 sets of 21 for the abs and grip
That is not a “celebrity pump up” routine. It is high rep, high volume bodybuilding that builds muscular endurance as much as size. Kravitz has said he trains around five to six days a week, typically lifting with free weights and plates rather than fancy machines, a pattern that helps explain why his 60-year-old abs still look insane. Men’s Health and other outlets also note that mobility work is baked in so his joints can survive the repeated pounding of touring.
The result is not the bloated, gym bro look. It is a lean, wiry frame that can actually move under stage lights for hours.
3. The “jungle workout” and outdoor lifestyle
When lockdowns stranded him on Eleuthera in the Bahamas, Kravitz just turned the island into a gym. He and Romero kept training over FaceTime. Cardio came from running the trails on his property, through grass and dirt, while his weight bench was literally a coconut tree growing sideways out of the ground, as shown in his island training sessions.
He describes it as a complete “jungle workout” built around simple dumbbells, pull ups and bodyweight movements, all done outside in the heat. Offstage, much of his daily movement comes from long bike rides around the island, paddle boarding and walking, not just formal workouts—an active island life he has talked about in interviews about his lifestyle.
That constant low level activity is exactly the kind of quiet, unglamorous movement that keeps older bodies young. It is the opposite of the star who only moves when there is a trainer and a camera present.
The raw vegan engine behind the abs
Kravitz is not just plant based. He is often almost feral about it. He follows a vegan, primarily raw diet and uses his properties in Brazil and the Bahamas to grow much of his own food, a commitment that has been highlighted in pieces on his diet and training and in coverage of his raw-vegan lifestyle.
When he opened his fridge for cameras, it was basically a shrine to chlorophyll: cucumbers, kale, salad greens, mangoes, broccoli, breadfruit and piles of soursop, which he calls his favorite and urges others to try. He has publicly done stretches of 100 percent raw eating for months at a time, and in one caption simply wrote “100 percent raw for two months now. Amazing for one’s health and the environment.”
He is explicit about why it matters. Kravitz says he is “very careful” about what he puts into his body, and that the combination of his diet and training is what lets him “get up on stage and play music and have a body that feels free” so he can express himself.
That does not mean he never has fun. He freely admits that his cheat meals are pure carb porn: pasta, bread, pancakes, waffles, “carbs, carbs and more carbs.” The difference is that for him, those are genuine treats, not the default.
What a Kravitz style day of eating looks like
Exact menus vary, but based on his own descriptions and interviews, a typical on island pattern looks something like this:
- Morning: Fruit and greens from the garden, often raw, sometimes blended or juiced.
- Daytime: Big salads, raw vegetables, avocados, herbs and “bush medicine” teas made from plants like moringa and lemongrass.
- Evening: More vegetables and fruit, sometimes lightly cooked but often still raw.
- Occasional: Plant based burgers, vegan comfort food or the infamous carb heavy cheat meals when he decides to cut loose.
Between his own statements and coverage in outlets like PETA and mainstream bios of his life and career, he has become one of the most visible older vegans in rock music, even being named one of their Most Beautiful Vegan Celebrities in 2022.
How this regimen powers his live shows
All of this effort is not about posing for Instagram. It is about performance. Kravitz’s training with Dodd Romero was designed specifically to let him deliver marathon sets without collapsing. He credits that mix of fasted cardio, high rep lifting and night time cardio with giving him the stamina to go hard on stage, night after night, as outlined in his interviews with Men’s Health Australia.
Look at how he uses it. He opened the 2024 Champions League final with a full throttle rock set in front of nearly 90,000 people and a global TV audience, sprinting and jumping like a man who never got the memo about slowing down at 60. His Blue Electric Light shows in Europe and beyond are packed with moments where he prowls the entire arena, climbs staging, and drags the crowd into extended funk vamps.
Vegas residencies are notoriously punishing, but Kravitz treats them almost like an endurance sport. During his five night run at Dolby Live in Park MGM he was clear that he kept up a rigorous routine: training five days a week, lifting weights, doing cardio and trying to rest whenever possible so the shows stayed explosive, according to reports on his Las Vegas run.
In short, the body you see in the thirst traps is the same one hauling a guitar, running down ramps and whipping up call and response sections when most singers would be hiding behind pyrotechnics.
Turning self care into stagecraft
What really sets Kravitz apart from the usual “fit celebrity” story is how holistic he has become. He talks about ticking all his wellbeing boxes behind the scenes: meditation, yoga, breathwork, prayer and those infamous 2 a.m. gym sessions when necessary, all so he can “vibrate at an optimal level,” as he put it in that candid interview about sex, spliffs and staying gorgeous at 60.
He does not frame this as vanity. For him, it is about being able to show up fully for the audience. He often describes live performance as “communion with the audience” and says his favorite thing about touring is being with the people who have given his music life, a feeling he elaborated on in discussions of how he connects with crowds. The fitness, food and spiritual practices are just the maintenance required to keep that communion intense instead of half hearted.
It is an almost spiritual athlete’s mindset wearing a rock god costume. That tension is part of what makes him so fascinating.
What older fans can steal from the Kravitz workout regime
You probably do not have a private Bahamian island or a FaceTime line to Dodd Romero. You do not need them. The useful part of the Kravitz model is less about specifics and more about principles.
- Train for what you love: His workouts are designed around surviving long, physical shows. Your “stage” might be weekends gigging with a band, hiking, or just keeping up with grandkids. Build your fitness around that.
- Master the basics, then outwork people: High rep squats, presses, pulls and core work, done consistently, beat exotic machines and novelty classes, especially as you age.
- Make movement your default setting: Kravitz does not only burn calories in the gym. He walks, cycles and paddles as a way of life. If you play guitar or drums, stand more, move more, live less of your musical life in a chair.
- Tighten the food quality, loosen the rules occasionally: Most of his intake is insanely clean and plant heavy. Then he has a wild carb blowout once in a while and moves on. That pattern beats constant “kind of” clean eating with constant snacking and booze.
- Accept that discipline is not optional after 50: Kravitz is blunt that at his age, staying in peak shape takes work and mental rewiring. The upside, he says, is that discipline eventually becomes a pleasure.
Put differently: he treats health like a serious creative project, not a side quest.
Conclusion: the last old school rock star who refused to look old
Lenny Kravitz’s body at 60 plus is not a genetic fluke or a filter. It is what happens when a lifelong musician decides that the stereotype of the soft, spent older rocker does not apply to him.
Raw vegan gardens, jungle workouts on coconut trees, 2 a.m. lifting sessions, meditation and three hour shows in leather pants are extreme choices. You do not have to copy them literally. But if you are a fan of the music that soundtracked the late 80s and 90s, and you are now staring down your own 50s, 60s or beyond, his example is a loud, funky reminder: age is real, but decay is optional.
Most of us will never walk out to a Champions League final stage or a Vegas residency. We can still steal Kravitz’s most subversive move of all: refusing to let time dictate how strong, mobile and alive we are allowed to be.
You can watch his Men’s Health Gym & Fridge video here:
