hey what's up everyone so Sylvester Stallone has no doubt inspired countless
men and women across the world to develop their bodies join a gym just get
in the best shape of their lives myself included
so in today's video I kind of want to talk about one of his most iconic
franchises the Rambo films starting out with 1982's first blood although an
impressive physique in its own right it's really more athletic and still
owned in really start getting that really muscular build until part 2
but anyways sit back and I'm going to talk about some of the training and diet
that led in the Rambo first blood
so first blood came out in October 1982 so Stallone would have been between 35
and 36 years old when he filmed it he waited somewhere in the 160s we got to
remember he came into this right off of rocky 3 when he was extremely ripped he
kind of wanted to take a little bit of a break from that crazy training regimen
he still wanted to remain fit and worked out but it wasn't quite like Rocky 3 and
you could see in this comparison pic right here the conditioning is
definitely sharper in Rocky 3 but he's still certainly fit in Rambo 1 slow
himself admits that training for Rocky 3 was a bit of an overkill he run three
miles in the morning do 15 runs of sparring followed by two hours in the
weight room then he'd usually do 500 setups for jumping rope for 30 minutes
he to eat nap and start again in the afternoons he'd take another run do some
more heavy lifting and then finish up with a long swim it was clearly a
full-time job he became obsessed with working out he said sometimes even at
night during a movie or a dinner party he'd drive home just to work out no
matter what time it was one or even two o'clock in the morning taking that into
consideration it's really not a surprise at first next film which happened to be
first blood wanted to take a bit of a break tone down the training so although
the training was a little bit easier for that film the filming certainly was not
from a physique standpoint I think Stallone looked perfect for the role
he's gonna be athletic he's gonna be tough but he's not gonna look like a
bodybuilder or anything the man's a drifter he's probably not
eating that great so I think this role just just in this movie he wasn't quite
the one-man army that he would become in Rambo 2 & 3 so this was really the
perfect look for him in this role now Stallone doesn't talk a whole lot about
first blood training but we get an idea from the rocky 3 training the hard
cornice of it that basically got him into the shape leading up in the first
blood and he's able to maintain that for months of filming so with rocky 3 he
actually trained twice a day with Franco Columbu he had AM and PM workouts and
the schedule look like this so on Monday morning he'd do chest and shoulders
which makes sense combining those two movements together
two body parts in the PM he do arms and abs on Tuesday he'd do back in the
morning followed by legs in the evening that sounds like a brutal day Wednesday
he'd do chest and shoulders again in the morning followed by ABS at night
Thursday morning he do arms followed by ABS at night Friday morning he'd do legs
followed by back at night a little bit a kind of an opposite of what he did on
Tuesday then Saturday he'd do chest and
shoulders in the morning followed by ABS at night also bear in mind that the mind
boggling additional cardio work he was doing alongside this
oh yeah and in case you're wondering why there are workouts dedicated entirely to
abs it's because every time they turned ABS they'd make sure to hit a thousand
reps circuit consisting of lying leg raises at Crunch's side leg raises
dumbbell side bends now Franco would say I would sometimes say let's add three
more sets for a joke but sly would just immediately agree and do them looks like
the joke was on Franco oh there's one thing about Stallone you can't discount
this man's Drive and dedication now as far as dieting goes Sloan was pretty
restrictive he was pretty extreme in fact it's claimed that he actually got
his body fat percentage down a two point nine percent which is ridiculous but
this actually earned him a place in the Guinness Book of World Records but the
lifestyle was very unsustainable and sheíll it's 2-2 Sloan feeling like a
zombie on set now bear in mind Rocky 3 he actually not only acted but he also
directed that film and during that period he says he ate only a very small
portions of oatmeal cookies made with brown rice in addition to a couple of
scoops of tuna fish and about 25 cups of coffee per day just to maintain his
energy levels he was seriously calorie restricted now he'll be the first to
admit that although he looked good on the outside it was a really dangerous
thing to do on the inside but he wanted that movie to be about change how people
have to adapt to different challenges because if they don't they'll be
conquered that worked out perfectly from the written the script of Rocky 3 now as
far as believing in the first blood also it worked out well as well it built that
not only mental toughness of restriction but also that that crazy physical
toughness and that was perfect for playing the
role of John Rambo you know it's interesting if you think about it the
parallels so you could almost equate just the lifestyle the calorie
restriction that the the crazy two day workouts a crazy amount of cardio ab
work etc you can you could literally think about Rocky 3 as is Stallone was
in war just it's just that crazy mental and physical challenge all the time
probably a lot of stress during that time as well I'd imagine so think about
him at war in Rocky 3 when he's filming that when he's creating that and now in
first blood went when he took it easy on the training and the diet think about
that when he was filming first blood like he got back for more it you know
there's still challenges there but the lifestyle is a little bit easier in that
analogy where it works out perfect but the kind of training you did in Rocky 3
he was in war when he filmed first blood it's not easy he's back in civilian life
obviously not easy especially if you watch the movie first blood but you
could see the analogy there works works very well anyway thanks so much for
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