--- title: Grimes Claims She Does an Eye Surgery Workout: Jokes description: Grimes is back in the spotlight after detailing a unique "training regimen" that includes sword fighting and experimental eye surgery. canonical: https://time.com/5627728/grimes-eye-surgery/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-07-16T21:00:45.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:59:33.419Z og:title: Does Grimes' 'Training Regimen' Have Too Much Sword Fighting to Be Real? og:description: The singer also claimed that she got eye surgery to "cure seasonal depression" og:url: https://time.com/5627728/grimes-eye-surgery/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt25a515ca2c0e19e8/698a000e09208f2190415405/grimeseyesurgery.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Marvel Studios "Captain Marvel" Premiere - Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Does Grimes' 'Training Regimen' Have Too Much Sword Fighting to Be Real? twitter:description: The singer also claimed that she got eye surgery to "cure seasonal depression" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt25a515ca2c0e19e8/698a000e09208f2190415405/grimeseyesurgery.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # People Are Really Breaking a Sweat With the Jokes About Grimes' Too-Crazy-to-Be-True 'Training Regimen'  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jul 16, 2019 9:00 PM UTC  Grimes attends the Marvel Studios "Captain Marvel" premiere on March 04, 2019 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images) Grimes attends the Marvel Studios "Captain Marvel" premiere on March 04, 2019 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)Frazer Harrison&Getty Images  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jul 16, 2019 9:00 PM UTC After [making headlines](https://people.com/style/elon-musk-dating-grimes-after-amber-heard-split/) last year for beginning a relationship with 48-year-old tech billionaire [Elon Musk](http://money.com/money/4883868/8-innovative-ways-elon-musk-made-money-before-he-was-a-billionaire/), [Grimes](https://time.com/5235013/janelle-monae-grimes-pynk-tessa-thompson/) is back in the spotlight for detailing her unique “training regimen” in a recent post on Instagram. To announce her new campaign with Adidas and Stella McCartney, Grimes took to Instagram on Monday to share the answer she apparently gave when Adidas asked her about her workout routine. Spoiler alert: It includes up to two hours of swordplay a day and experimental eye surgery. “My training is a 360 approach,” she wrote. “In the afternoons I do a 1-2 hour sword fighting session with my trainer, James Lew, we go over the fundamentals that work the obliques, core stabilizes, and triceps as well as a few tricks. To wind down from this I spend 30-45 minutes on an inclined hike at roughly 4-4.5 miles per hour, arguably the most efficient workout.” Lew has previously [tweeted](https://twitter.com/thejameslew/status/1110183903786983425?s=20) about working with Grimes, so that at least checks out. But it was when the _Art Angels_ artist went on to say that she replaced part of her eyeball with plastic to cure seasonal depression that fans began to really question whether or not she was trolling them. “I have also eliminated all blue light from my vision through an experimental surgery that removes the top film of my eyeball and replaces it with an orange ultra-flex polymer that my friend and I made in the lab this past winter as a means to cure seasonal depression,” Grimes wrote. See some of the best responses below. > [](https://twitter.com/goodjobliz/status/1151100645132439552) > [](https://twitter.com/BBW%5FBFF/status/1150968407463874560) > [](https://twitter.com/nicolewboyce/status/1151122716243767296) > [](https://twitter.com/ajrobertshaw/status/1151149830921752577) > [](https://twitter.com/philippawarr/status/1151085435222933504) > [](https://twitter.com/hazedndconfused/status/1151195915060858880) > [](https://twitter.com/j%5Fzimms/status/1151124590845931521) > [](https://twitter.com/hhtahir/status/1151209686554820609) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5627728/grimes-eye-surgery/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5627728/grimes-eye-surgery/"},"headline":"People Are Really Breaking a Sweat With the Jokes About Grimes' Too-Crazy-to-Be-True 'Training Regimen'","datePublished":"2019-07-16T21:00:45.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:59:33.419Z","description":"The singer also claimed that she got eye surgery to \"cure seasonal depression\"","url":"https://time.com/5627728/grimes-eye-surgery/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","Music"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt25a515ca2c0e19e8/698a000e09208f2190415405/grimeseyesurgery.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt25a515ca2c0e19e8/698a000e09208f2190415405/grimeseyesurgery.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Marvel Studios \"Captain Marvel\" Premiere - Arrivals","caption":"Grimes workout routine","creditText":"Frazer Harrison&Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5627728/grimes-eye-surgery/","name":"People Are Really Breaking a Sweat With the Jokes About Grimes' Too-Crazy-to-Be-True 'Training Regimen'"}}]}] ```