Carrie Underwood reveals listening to BOY BANDS helps motivate her at the gym

Carrie Underwood has stayed in top shape even though she has two children and a busy work schedule.

And on Tuesday the 37-year-old blonde beauty told Drew Barrymore that she needs motivation to work hard at the gym, just like everybody else.

As the Nashville resident shared her tricks for getting in the mood for a sweat session, she shared one of them is listening to boy bands.

Boy bands were popular in the late 1990s and included NSYNC, 98 Degrees, and later, the Jonas Brothers.

‘My playlist varies day to day, this morning I did something it was all about boy bands and the whole thing was just boy bands and I was like this is fun because you wonder who is going to come next. It’s just fun to switch it up and get silly, it’s okay,’ said the country crooner. 

And she uses cards for her Fit52 workout.

‘We use a deck of cards we flip a card over and the suit tells you what exercise you’re doing, whatever you’ve laid out for yourself and the number tells you how many rep,’ said the American Idol veteran. 

‘Play your games, switch it up.’

Drew then said she read that Carrie makes her bed every morning.

‘Well it’s the kind of thing, “Does this take me that long to do? No.” Just do it and get it over with and then get on with your life and that’s how I look at working out and taking care of myself too. 

‘Just get it done, get up, go to the gym, then it’s over you feel better, you are doing something good for yourself. And you think it’s just making your bed but it makes you feel better. You check it off the list and you move on and get on to more important things. And you have that foundation of I’ve already done something today.’

And Carrie stressed the importance of balance during this crazy time. 

‘I’m a working mom, I have a busy schedule taking kids to school and to whatever practices are going on and juggling like we all are and you know we offer a lot of hacks and tricks to eating healthy on the go and making sure you have easily grabble foods in your refrigerator and pantry,’ she said, obviusly referring to life before the pandemic.

‘Enjoy your life. It is all about balance.’ 

Drew and Carrie also surprise Hayley Orlinsky, aged seven, who has raised over $27,000 for Frontline Workers with a combined donation of $10,000.

Carrie also talked about her first holiday album which was released in 2020. 

‘It was always a bucket list thing that I have always wanted to do…I knew at end of 2019 that was the next step I wanted to take and started working on the Christmas album. It was such a joy for me, especially throughout 2020 to be able to work on such positive music. 

Carrie added it was a nice stress reliever for her to be able to go into the studio and sing these songs.

‘Little Drummer Boy is one of my favorite Christmas songs ever and as I was recording it, I could just hear my son’s little perfect 5-year-old voice singing these words because that’s just his personality,’ said Underwood.

‘He is a giver, he wants to make things for you and give things to you. He likes to write songs, ‘Here’s a song I made up.’ So I asked him if he wanted to come in and sing with me and he was super excited and did such a great job.

And her son is good, says mom.

‘You can kind of tell when someone has pitch. He can sing along with me and you can tell what song he’s singing if he’s singing on his own because he’s singing the correct notes. 

‘He’s almost six but he’s just a little guy so I don’t know if he’ll have that or have that passion at all. We are supportive of whatever he wants to do but he definitely has pitch so I figured him coming in and singing we could make it to use the best parts of what he did and make it good. But honestly most of it was from one take which is impressive.’

When Drew asked, ‘Is that now one of those memories that just lives on?; Carrie replied, ‘Yes, I told everybody, I was like, ‘I don’t know how cooperative he’s going to be. I don’t know if he’s going to do it once and be like, ‘I don’t want to do this anymore.’ If nothing else I have this moment, I have this day he came to work with me and see what I do and it was such a magical experience in the studio but then having that moment ingrained forever in a musical form, his little voice.

‘He already pronounces his rums, like just from that point to this point…That was such a fleeting moment. It’s not there anymore and I have that forever.’