![]() ![]() MN: “We absolutely would never, ever, ever do that. If it doesn’t get easier, then maybe fighting’s not for you.”Įxercise: Drago is grimacing through a seated abdominal crunch. If you do this stuff every day, it hopefully gets easier. There’s a calculated risk in doing some of these activities … There are some athletes who could tolerate this, but for a lot of them, it would do more harm than good.” A lot of the traditional abdominal training like that, there’s lots of research that’s come out in the last 10 or 20 years - and I actually did my master’s thesis on this - that shows even though you’ve got a great deal of activation of the abdominal wall, it comes at the cost of a lot of compression and sheer force on the spine. We don’t do it hanging from a loft in a barn, or in the gym, for any reason. As a boxer, you step-punch, step-punch, step-punch.”Įxercise: Rocky is doing sit-ups hanging from a loft in the barn, with Paulie keeping Rocky’s feet in place. ![]() The hands are turning, the feet have got to work with your hands. Also, with the skipping, you want your hands and feet working together. Because the higher the knees go, the harder the heart works. Johnny Kalbhenn (JK): “It’s great cardio. In addition to being just good cardiovascular warm-up, it also incorporates timing, balance, rhythm, and it’s an intro to biometrics for us.” It doesn’t matter if they’re young kids or pros. And it doesn’t matter if they’re hockey players or football players or basketball players. Matt Nichol (MN): “We incorporate jump rope - or skipping rope - literally every single day into training with our athletes. On separate visits, The Athletic sat down with each expert to answer two simmering questions: Are the exercises Rocky Balboa and Ivan Drago employed during the critical training montage in Rocky IV legitimate? And if so, which fighter was preparing better for the big fight?Įxercise: Rocky is jumping rope in a dusty barn somewhere deep in the Soviet Union. It is spare and clearly focused on one thing: Boxing. Johnny Kalbhenn represented Canada at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, and he is a coach at Cabbagetown Boxing Club, working in a space that is not far removed from the films. Nichol insists they watch “Rocky” movies. He makes a point of instructing his young clients to familiarize themselves with a canon of Hollywood movies that praises such dirty work. “But I like to remind them: Sometimes, when your training environment gets a little too soft and comfortable, you get a little too soft and comfortable.” When the film was released in theaters, fans were ecstatic and jubilant at their idol’s show of strength.“It’s a dungeon,” he said. On screen, the film pits Rocky’s old school methods against those of his rival Drago’s ultra modern methods. In spite of everything, Sylvester Stallone manages to complete the sequences where he runs in the snow and even climbs a mountain, on the notes of the hit Hearts On Fire by John Cafferty.Īs usual, the New York actor does not spare himself and builds the campaign despite the extreme conditions. The equipment freezes and makes shooting complicated. As soon as the team arrived, they ran into problems related to the cold. Instead, he abandons Los Angeles and Philadelphia, where all the previous installments of the saga were produced, and sets his cameras in the heart of the wilderness of the Mormon Row Historic District, in the middle of winter. However, if a good part of the film is supposed to take place in the U.S.S.R., Sly never considered relocating the shooting. Motivated by the success of the first two Rambos and Rocky III, the actor delivers with Rocky IV an allegory of the Cold War by opposing the American champion to a fearsome Russian boxer. When he decided to return behind the camera to orchestrate the fourth installment of the adventures of Rocky Balboa, Sylvester Stallone was at the top of the Hollywood food chain. You requested this dumb location? Why? You planning to grow reindeer or something? Paulie (Burt Young) Mormon Row Historic District by Jon Sullivan. A training session actually shot by Sylvester Stallone in the United States in Grand Teton National Park. ![]() ![]() Deciding to return to his roots, away from the glitz of his championship life, Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) trains in the Russian countryside, at the foot of the mountains, for his match against Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren). ![]()
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