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Sylvester Stallone is an American published author, actor, screenwriter, producer and director.

He was one of the biggest movie stars in the world spanning from the seventies to the nineties, becoming a huge box office draw from audiences. He is known around the globe and has been considered a megastar. An icon for many, you may know him from his famous weapon-toting character John Rambo, or as the impressive boxer Rocky Balboa.

Known also as ‘Sly’, the actor had an incredible rise in his career and was very popular during the eighties. While participating in the Rocky and the Rambo franchises, he was easily recognizable as one of the biggest movie stars in the world. His films had a huge impact on pop culture and catapulted him into a successful career, one that saw him as part of the A-List in Hollywood for decades.

Many people consider him to be the individual who transformed the city of Philadelphia into a tourist destination thanks to the Rocky steps being there. The popularity that Stallone enjoys there has resulted in a statue being made of his Rocky character, which was put permanently as a cultural landmark close to the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

In 2007, a statue of Rocky was also erected in a Serbian village. The film has become part of the National Film Registry and has had its film props put in the Smithsonian Museum as a national treasure.

Sly Moves: My Proven Program to Lose Weight, Build Strength, Gain Will Power, and Live Your Dream is a 2005 book by Sylvester Stallone. Many people want to transform their figures and live the type of life where they are physically in shape and feel great about how they look. This book could help you potentially achieve that!

Sylvester Stallone has long been a big name in the action field, and now he takes his expertise on the physique to you. This is an action-oriented program that is centered all on how to get fit and eat right, and how you the reader can make it happen.

A guide on fitness and nutrition, this handbook also takes a look at the life of Sly. He’s been body-conscious throughout the course of his career, experimenting with different methods of intense training for his films. He’s found out what works and what doesn’t, and wants to help others change their fitness habits, fight reckless eating, and appreciate themselves.

The first part includes a history of his physique, with stories about his childhood, finding reprieve at the gym, and fad diets, crash training, and obsessive workout disasters. Part two includes his Sly Moves workout which has four exercise programs and only takes three hours a week. Part three is his nutrition guide, paired with a meal plan. The fourth part gives him the chance to inspire readers to make this book part of their comprehensive lifestyle, with tips and tricks to help along the way. Want to be healthy? Then check out Sly Moves!

Rocky Stories: Tales of Love, Hope, and Happiness at America’s Most Famous Steps is a 2006 book by Sylvester Stallone. If you are a fan of the Rocky story, you’ll love this book by Michael Vitez, photographed by Tom Gralish and with a foreword written by Sylvester Stallone himself.

Vitez and Gralish spent a total of a year visiting the Philadelphia Museum of Art just so that they could find stories of the Rocky Runners. These are people who come from different places all over the world just for the purposes of running up the most famous steps in America to imitate what Stallone did as Rocky in the movie.

People make this voyage to look for inspiration, celebrate an accomplishment, mark a new beginning, find the backdrop for romance, or just because they are huge fans of the movie. As one runner was able to express, it ‘gives you the feeling that anything is possible’.

The authors have scratched at the surface of a cultural phenomenon that continues to endure. This one focuses on Philadelphia. Despite this, it is an American and even an international rite of passage. The book comes with 52 different profiles and 100 photographs in color. They are paired with a foreword from the actor himself and different interviews conducted with Bill Conti (composer), Garrett Brown (cameraman), and John G. Avildsen (director).

As Sly says in his foreword, you can’t ‘borrow Superman’s cape’ or ‘use the Jedi laser sword’. But the actual steps from Rocky as ‘accessible’, and when people are standing up there, they ‘kind of have a piece of the Rocky pie’. Different publications rave about this book, from San Francisco Chronicle to Sports Illustrated to Entertainment Weekly.

So many different people have loved this movie, and it’s easy to see why. But now fans of the film have an all-new way to enjoy the legacy of Rocky, and to see how other fans of the film Rocky have appreciated and interacted with the famous steps that were included in the movie in a scene that stands out in memory and has stood the test of time.

As former Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell notes, the Rocky steps ‘have become a special place for tourists and Philadelphians alike’ as nearly everyone that comes there wants to be able to say that ‘they ran up the Rocky steps’. The enthusiasm of the visitors and the impression that Rocky has made on audiences from all over the world is captured perfectly in Rocky Stories, a book that readers are sure to want to experience for themselves.

Whether you’ve always dreamed of running up those stairs yourself or just want to see how and why others have made their way to the steps, it’s all here. Michael Vitez is a Pulitzer Prize winner and Tom Gralish has been a part of the Philadelphia Inquirer as an editor and photographer and has also won a Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography. See how their work complements each other perfectly by getting a copy of this fascinating book for yourself!