THE ITALIAN STALLION SLY WEIGHT TRIANING ROUTINE

On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays he splits his training into two sessions per day as follows:

Stallone’s Morning Training:
Chest, back and abs workouts, including bench presses, lateral pull downs and crunches.

Stallone’s Afternoon Training:
Shoulders, arms and more abs, including military presses, lateral raises, bicep curls and tricep extensions, and more crunches and leg raises.

On Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays Stallone also trained morning and afternoon.

Stallone’s Morning Training:
Calves and thighs, including calf raises and squats.

Afternoon Training:
Rear deltoids, traps and more abs, including rear deltoid / bent-over rows, shoulder presses, upright rows and more crunches.

Stallone’s routine was a very intensive six days per week with a double split, which is the style of weight training that professional bodybuilders use when competing – not surprising, seeing that he employed a professional bodybuilder to guide him.

Sly followed a standard 8-12 repetition with 3-4 sets pattern. He did 3 to 4 exercises per body part. Each day he varied the exercises using instinctive training, to keep the muscles form falling into a routine, and ensuring a plateau was not reached too soon. He also exercised his abs furiously, with abdominal routines daily.


Sylvester Stallone’s Ab Training
Sly Stallone’s abdominal workout consisted of a total of 1000 repetitions, by training four different areas with combinations of sit-ups, leg raises, side leg raises and side bends. Often 50 reps of each exercise would be done for each 5 sets, i.e. 5 sets of 200 exercises. This was old school circuit training done to the extreme, which any military training instructor / drill sergeant would be proud of.

Sylvester Stallone Training Mentality
Sylvester Stallone learned how to train like a professional with the help of Franco Columbu, and he built on these training routines throughout his career to build himself up into one of Hollywood’s greatest action heroes. Sylvester Stallone’s is certainly one of the 20th Century’s great action heroes, and by following his workouts and nutrition advice, you too can sculpt the body of an action hero.

In 2002 he brought out a book on fitness and weight training, called Sly Moves. Here is one readers review of the book:

“I am a fitness instructor and a huge “rocky” fan and wanted to see what sly recommended in his training guide. As expected we get the usual, “exercise changed my life” comments and a few really interesting insights from the man who was once named “body of the 80’s”.
The book itself is excellent reading, with good exercises. Even the diet is humane, with none of the “egg-whites only” expected from a Hollywood star, and he even recommends seeing a trainer before beginning the exercises shown. All in all, thoroughly worth buying, please write more SLY!”

Sly Moves: My Proven Program to Lose Weight, Build Strength, Gain Will Power, and Live your Dream, By Sylvester Stallone

Stallone’s Fitness Book: