hey everyone today I want to talk about Stallone's physique in Rambo first blood
part 2 so Rambo 2 was by far the most successful film in that franchise and
obviously he inspired a lot of people to start working out wanting to get that
kind of physique so I'm gonna provide you some insight into the training the
diet and everything else that went into that and also a couple unique facts and
about that film as far as the training and everything else goes
so Rambo First Blood Part two you came out in the summer of 1985 which would
have made Stallone around 38 years old there's been conflicting reports about
how much he weighed anywhere between 163 and 180 now it makes sense for him to
fluctuate throughout filming but I couldn't really see more than five or
ten pounds at the most realistically it's probably in the 170s which you know
with this kind of frame I'd say between 5'8" and 5'10", 170 at that kind of leanness
I mean that's literally like middleweight bodybuilding size which is
between about 165 and a quarter and 176 and a quarter, so it was really
impressive from a rip muscular perspective and this is one in my
opinion that really kind of inspired a generation of people of young men and
want to look like him in fact Athlean-X Jeff Cavaliere here's what he has
the physique role models I had very well known by this point Sylvester Stallone
that's the guy that I wanted to be I wanted to be like he looked like in
Rambo and some might say that Jeff you've actually become a bit like
Sylvestor Stallone was like in Rambo and that that's cool for me that'd be cool
for anybody it even be cool enough down at the Jersey Shore I'm an extremely
aggressive dude that is ripped up like Rambo ripped up like Rambo and I could
jump and kick like Van Damme it's not a good idea to mess with his it looking
like Rambo is good enough but kickin like Van Damme no wonder that show was
so popular now Stallone seen every sequel for Rambo as an opportunity to change
physically he didn't just want to come back looking like the same guy every
time he wanted the challenge in fact he says a real challenge something that
intimidates you is the only thing that will bring out your best now getting in
a shape for Rambo 2 meant pushing the new limits he said he needed a ferocious
look to match a plot that was equally pumped up now on the story Rambo had
been in the military prison breaking rocks so as armed how to be powerful and
hard months before the production began he got into an extremely intense
training regimen and as a shoot got closer he put himself on a repetitive
high-protein diet that consisted mainly of chicken greens and occasionally beets
on the weekends he said he'd lighten up a bit me even have some ice cream
become Monday it was back to the bare minimum YUM
now Sylvester Stallone was definitely a lot bigger and Rambo too definitely more impressive
what stuck out to me and one of the earlier scenes in the film kind of
actually had that bodybuilder walk that white lat
not moving the arms too much type of walk
and you can see exactly what I'm talking about right here but you might want to
think about maybe um moving your arms a little when you walk kind of got that
invisible suitcase thing going now Stallone says he wanted to look like
Tarzan sleek tight almost cat-like he wanted to really go for well-defined
muscles not so much bulk so he actually started out lifting twice a day to
achieve that was about eight months of training four hours a day top of myself
up the SWAT combat courses the archery courses the survivalist courses back to
the gym again and workout again now credits really gonna be given to the
late Franco Columbu forgetting Stallone in that incredible shape Stallone look
like this I say yes I said but how long he says we got only seven to eight weeks
time and I looked at it and you know here's a lot good abdominals good chest
but not too big and I said but this is much bigger than Stallone is to look
like four remember one and says yes we have in the script that is ten pounds
heavier to fifteen pounds I say okay what about if he doesn't get to look
like that and he says oh I will fire him I said wow you know whether the
producers were joking or not that definitely put some pressure and
Stallone to get in the best shape possible in seven weeks and building off
of that there's an interesting interview between Franco Columbu and Gary Schultz
in the early 2000s Franco was kind of promoting one of the
new films he just shot called ancient warriors and since they've worked
together on Rambo First Blood Part two Gary asked him if he had any interesting
stories to share I'll put a link to that article in the description below also if
you're curious about that movie ancient warriors will be a link in there in the
description also Franco said he didn't think well he was worried rather that he
wouldn't have complete control over slums training because
kind of loves to be the boss and loves everything to be his way which sort of
makes sense if you talk about a guy who writes his own films who directs a lot
of them who acts in them he's kind of used to wearing all hats and he's kind
of used to be in the boss and you kind of have to do that if you're a director
but anyway that was one of Franco's worries and he basically told us to loan
he said if we train it's gonna be my way and what I did was I said sly I can get
you in this kind of shape but what we need to do we need to have an agreement
so I I came out with a one-page contract that you know it said it's gonna cost
him so much this basically I got to put everything else aside I'm just going to
focus on you during this time agreed and in the contract there's a
line saying that you cannot take anything without my approval and that
includes any kind of steroids vitamins minerals anything and and I told them
because say for example if you take steroids and you get pumped up you don't
get defined and the producers won't be happy now Rambo in general is more known
for being that rock hard snowy ripped type of guy not just a raw size now he's
got a good amount of muscle but it's not like Arnold or anything like that
but the conditioning it's quite a bit more impressive now I found that an
interview overall to be very interesting a lot of people equate Rambo with being
on steroids for various reasons I mean he's absolutely ripped great
conditioning muscular but you know for me I I don't think Sloan used anything
at least not for Rambo to to work in his dedicated he's working out with Franco
Columbu you know Stallone in general he's got pretty good genetics that's
despite what this Russian guy has to say
you know there are natural bodybuilders around that kind of frame that size you
know it just takes a long time to get there so you're not gonna do it in three
months but yeah I give I definitely give small on a benefit the doubt that is an
achievable physique it's not gonna be easy for anybody but there's no reason
why you couldn't achieve that with years of hard work and you know proper
training and diet now the workout routine was six days a
week sometimes twice a day usually consisted of super sets and
split sets so he did 15 to 20 sets of exercises targeting every part of the
body and before bed often at night he deuce 200 sit-ups 250 push-ups and 100
chin-ups it's pretty insane now with all that said anyone putting that kind of
work in you're definitely gonna look a lot more like Rambo too than you
currently do now but anyway let me know in the comments below because this is
something that a lot of people talk about and think about
you think Stallone was natural for Rambo to some one thing I do want to point out
so he worked with Franco Columbu 7 weeks to make this insane transformation prior
to filming of Rambo - but bear in mind the key thing is muscle memory so he
started working with Franco since Rocky - and of course Rocky 3 so he had
already built a really great foundation had a pretty good amount of muscle Rambo
- the really the big key was just the conditioning he got so obviously he put
some size on especially from Rambow one which would be the you know
the comparison that you would generally make what do you look like in that film
and compared to the next one but the transformation like I mentioned somebody
in general is not going to build that kind of body in that short period of
time but because he already had built a foundation it was really just kind of
like you know getting everything done in a short period of time I it would be
achievable in that circumstance certainly not if he had never worked out
prior to that 7 week training thanks so much for watching if you liked the video
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