Show And Tell: Sly Moves By Sylvester Stallone

I just got this book from my local library yesterday, and so far, I can't put it down. I think it came out a few years ago, but I never got around to reading it cause I didn't want to buy it. Thank God for the library!

Stallone's movies were THE films to see when I was a kid/teenager. The Rocky's, the Rambos, Star Wars, Superman, and Indiana Jones were the films of my generation. Oh, and Back to the Future and Karate Kid, I guess. The first one. But I digress.

This book has a lot of valuable insight into Stallone's training methods during all those movies I loved. And it's surprisingly funny in parts. He has a self-deprecating sense of humor that I didn't expect. I am not to the workout plan sections yet, but they don't look like anything new—the same old exercises.

An exciting thing about the book is that it's fun to compare Sly's earliest photos, when he didn't know how to train or eat correctly, to the uber-fit Rocky 3 days, to his current unbelievable condition in his early to mid-60s.

Again, I'm not done with it yet, so maybe I'm just not to that point, but he hasn't said anything in this book about being arrested in Australia for bringing Human Growth Hormone (HGH) into the country last year. Somehow I don't think he will, either.

Regardless, this is an excellent book for anybody who idolized Stallone as I did as a kid and wants to start getting into shape.