![]() At just under five minutes, the Rocky II montage is the third longest in the series, and while other sequences like this may waste time by putting too much story in - see the Creed montage below - Rocky II is all action, but for a tiny interlude in the middle where he puts his baby to bed. The second Rocky montage gets a high ranking in large part for its length and the wide variety of exercises Rocky puts himself through. ![]() As for the mountain, Salazar says that you’d want to be more prepared for that than Rocky was, so make sure you can handle the loss of oxygen (and wear a warmer coat). Jumping around in the snow carrying a giant log is going to require a good amount of upper body strength before you attempt it, so you’ll already want to be in very good shape for that. Worst-case scenario, you may just not be able to pull the sled very far. The sled training is great exercise and you most likely won’t hurt yourself attempting it (though no workout is completely immune from danger). ![]() It’s not done in the snow with an actual sled, but it’s meant to mimic that kind of activity.”įitness expert and MEL contributor Oliver Lee Bateman also weighs in, saying that, “ Rocky IV is famous for capturing the ‘contrast’ in East versus West training methods - the resourceful, ‘real man’ Westerner versus the Eastern ‘machine man’ or ‘servant of the state.’ Balboa is sawing logs and lifting wood, which is still a good workout if you can get it.” As for Drago, while Bateman says that it reflects Soviet training methods somewhat accurately, he has a hard time looking past the “clearly fake weights” Lundgren’s lifting.Īs for whether or not you should attempt this workout, Salazar says that - for the most part - you can. He was also using the horse carriage as a shoulder press and pulling that ox cart, which is basically like sled training now and utilizes a lot of explosive power and is a good cardio workout. For one, snow is going to increase resistance, and he also climbs a mountain, so there’s altitude training. At over seven minutes long, this workout montage is the longest in the series and features some of Rocky’s most ridiculous exercises, including him climbing a mountain - sans any supplies - and pulling an ox cart like a Goddamn animal.Īccording to Sean Salazar, a personal trainer and the owner of Anywhere Gym, “Out of all the workouts, Rocky IV was definitely the toughest. ![]() After all, Rocky IV is the one where Rocky fights Dolph Lundgren’s Ivan Drago, the Russian super boxer who killed Carl Weathers’ Apollo Creed at the beginning of the movie. You’re welcome.Īny Rocky fan could have probably guessed that Rocky IV ’s training montage was going to top the list here. After all, if I’ve already got the Rocky theme (which will surely one day be proved by science as the single most motivating piece of music ever written) cued up on my workout playlist, it makes sense to try to emulate the workouts in the movie, too.īut before I hurt myself - and to give me yet another reason to procrastinate about going to the gym - I consulted a couple of fitness experts to evaluate how good of a workout each Rocky montage is. Some are more iconic than others and some are far too fucking long, but - because this is the kind of shit we think about here - I got to wondering which Rocky training montage is strictly the best workout. Like the Rocky films themselves, the Rocky montages aren’t all equal. ![]()
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