Larry Fleet Is Sober, Healthy and Ready to Appreciate All the 'Things I Take for Granted' (Exclusive)

“I need someone to help keep me accountable. If not, I’m eating Reese’s Eggs with peanut butter,” she jokes to PEOPLE. “It’s a journey”

Larry Fleet is getting fit.

“I have a little home gym downstairs, so I go in there and work up a little sweat,” Fleet, 38, tells PEOPLE in a recent interview from her home in White Bluff, Tennessee. “I’m going for a bike ride in the afternoon.”

It’s a new regime that Fleet says isn’t really anything new. He just never loved him like he did now.

“I used to hate it,” the country music singer/songwriter recalls with a laugh. “I played football for years and they made us practice, so I really despised it.”

Larry Fleet.

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Just last year, Fleet says he had a home gym built in the home he shares with his wife Phebe and their children – 4-year-old Waylon and 2-year-old Stella. But during the winter months, the “Where I Find God” hitmaker admits he started to slack off a bit in the ‘exercise’ department.

“I’m getting back into gear now,” says Fleet. “The way I motivate myself is to buy something for the gym and then I’m like, ‘Oh, I have to go use this.’ And that brings me back in. I need someone to help me be accountable. If not, I eat Reese’s eggs with peanut butter.” He is laughing. “It’s a journey.”

Granted, Fleet won’t have much time in his home gym for a while while he continues with his I deserved it main tour. But he works hard to continue his fitness journey, even when he’s on the road.

“I have ropes on my bus,” says Fleet, who often shares videos of his various exercises on his social media channels. “If you have a battle rope, you can do almost anything. You can do a lot of exercises with this thing. The good thing about it is that it gets your heart rate up and then literally roasts your shoulders and arms. It’s a really great tool for $70.”

In addition to deciding to get fit, Fleet also made the decision to get sober a few years ago.

“I didn’t want the kids to see me drunk,” he says quietly. “I used to go wild and throw up all the time. I would say things and regret it the next day. So, I just got tired of it. I didn’t want to embarrass myself. I wanted to be fully aware of what I was doing at all times.”

And as much as he did it for himself, he also did it for his children.

“I wanted to set a good example for them,” explains Fleet. “Since I stopped drinking, I feel much better. It was something I had to cut out of my life, which I did. I just stopped completely and didn’t even want to drink. There are things that are more important to me than fun or socializing or whatever. I’d rather spend my time here drinking sweet tea and mowing the grass with my boy.”

Larry Fleet.

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Country music truther Larry Fleet continues to let the honesty shine through “Where I Find God”

It’s a nice place for Fleet as he’s currently releasing the first single from his third studio album I deserved ittitled “Things I Take for Granted,” since it’s a song that’s already become a featured track on his tour.

“Usually when I play ‘Where I Find God,’ people set the place on fire,” he says of his live performance reaction to his 2021 hit. “Now arenas are on fire for ‘Things I Take For Granted.’ When I saw that happen, I knew we were on to something. I will see how it works in real time.”

Surprisingly, the deep-lyric song began to take root in the parking lot.

“We talked about how little things like playing ball with my boy or tucking the kids in are things you take for granted,” says Fleet of the lyrical backbone of the song he co-wrote with Rocky Block, Jordan Dozzi and Brett Tyler. “It was a great title. We wrote it and the next day we had a demo. It was a very honest song for me.”

Larry Fleet performs live.

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And it was simple, in a world where nothing seems to be simple anymore.

“We confuse all“, explains Fleet, who will also embark on the Billy Currington tour this spring. “We make everything time more complicated. As a songwriter, we’re always like, ‘Man, we will singer-songwriter to hell with this’ and make it so poetic. But there is a time and a place for that. As for me, most of the time I just want to get to the point. I have found that it works. Say what you have to say and make it as honest as you can.”

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