Sylvester Stallone Shared a Throwback Clip About His Ridiculous Training for 'First Blood'

Jesse Hicks

August 19, 2019 9:24 PM

From Rocky to Rambo to The Expendables, Sylvester Stallone has made a career playing heavily muscled alpha males , guys with names like John Spartan and Lt. Raymond Tango. Its easy to forget that he wasnt always this wayeven Sly didnt emerge from the womb fully jacked; he had to work for it.

Stallone Shares Clip About 'Rambo' Training

The official Sylvester Stallone Instagram account of that recently. Titled, The Rambo Workout (and apparently from around the release of 1982s First Blood), the clip begins with a martial drumbeat and a moody close-up of Stallones toned and glistening shoulder. It then cuts to co-star Brian Dennehy testifying, That guy re-molded his entire body. Ive never seen anybody do that. ( of the clip has Dennehy adding that Stallone weighed 185 pounds when they first met.)

Over scenes of John Rambo flexing and fighting, Stallones co-stars laud his dedication to training. He was up at 5 AM to hit the gym, then putting in a full day of work, then back to the gym. Stallone himself appears in his iconic Rambo headband and expansive 80s hair, saying, It was about eight months of training, four hours a day, to toughen myself up. He describes taking SWAT combat, archery courses, and survivalist courses, and looking to technical advisors to keep him and the Rambo story honest.

With Stallone returning to the role in next months Rambo: Last Blood, itll be interesting to see how the now 73-year-old actors body holds up, stepping back into a character he made a household name almost 40 years ago.

Watch the video here:

View this post on Instagram NOTHING LIFE CHANGING COMES EASY ... SUCESS = STRUGGLE . You can do it if you are not afraid of failing , that has been the key for me . #rambo5 #rockybalboa1976 A post shared by Sly Stallone (@officialslystallone) on Aug 19, 2019 at 10:58am PDT

Jesse Hicks