Not recommended: Running in wet shoes deforestation steroids. Optional: Substituting rocks for weight plates or medicine balls, wearing a heavily insulated leather bomber jacket while training, everything else in John Cafferty’s discography. Recommended: Growing a beard “Hearts on Fire” proper insulation for cold-weather workouts screaming your opponent’s name from a mountaintop. Roman Chair Situp (with finishing punches) Lateral medicine ball throw (or use boulders, whatever works) Not recommended: Smoking cigars in the training room (way to be, Paulie) drinking beer on the pool deck (again, way to be, Paulie). Mandatory: Bill Conte’s soundtrack wearing a yellow tank top “Eye of the Tiger” bro hugs on the beach Rocky III (1982)įootwork drills with Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) Not recommended: Exercising in a working junkyard exercising in a working freight rail yard leading a de facto parade of small children through Philadelphia without any other adult supervision. Mandatory: Bill Conte’s soundtrack wearing a legendary red bandana. (Seriously, Philadelphia Magazine did the math, and Rocky runs just over 30 miles in this scene.) Optional: All-American knee socks running 30 miles in Chucks. Rocky II (1979)īarbell lunges (use a log, whatever works)ĭistance run: Casual 30-miler through Philadelphia, including park bench hurdles.Īgility: Chasing exactly one chicken through a Philly back alley Not recommended: Consuming five raw eggs before training. Optional: Going for long runs in Chuck Taylor All Stars doing heavy bag work on cattle carcasses getting punched in the torso.
“You’re gonna eat lightning and you’re gonna crap thunder!”ĭistance run through Philadelphia, including the 72 steps of the Philadelphia Museum of ArtĬlap pushups (but only three, for some reason) Jordan as Balboa’s protege Adonis Johnson, we’re saluting the montages that first got us in the gym -and keep us going back-from that one where he finally beats Apollo Creed to the one where he fights the Russian. But on the eve of the premiere of Creed, starring Men’s Fitness December cover star Michael B. Of course, you probably don’t have an irate, doddering old boxing trainer from Philadelphia to growl himself hoarse during your training. Start humming few bars of “Gonna Fly Now,” and you’re, well, flying. It’s the best part of every Rocky movie: The training montage.Įver since a young Sylvester Stallone chugged five eggs and huffed his way through the streets of Philadelphia in 1976 en route to three Oscars and a shot at the heavyweight crown, every fit guy has imagined he’s got what it takes to go the distance.
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