{"id":379362,"date":"2026-09-29T10:44:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T17:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=379362"},"modified":"2026-09-30T09:53:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T16:53:01","slug":"sylvester-stallones-rocky-memoir-is-out-now-physique-drug-claims-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/sylvester-stallones-rocky-memoir-is-out-now-physique-drug-claims-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Sylvester Stallone\u2019s Rocky memoir is out now: physique drug claims return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sylvester Stallone\u2019s memoir <em>Steps<\/em> came out today, right on the 50th anniversary of <em>Rocky<\/em>. In it, he goes back over the years of rejection and career frustration that came before the 1976 film finally got made.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The book also puts fresh attention on something Stallone has admitted more recently: he used steroids while getting ready for <em>Rocky III<\/em> in <strong>1982<\/strong>. And he\u2019s blunt about what he thinks when he looks at the bigger, leaner, sharply cut bodies that now dominate superhero movies. In his words, \u201cNobody does it without additives and drugs , period.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While promoting <em>Steps<\/em>, including a <strong>50-minute<\/strong> talk with Tracy Smith at 92nd Street Y, Stallone called Hollywood an \u201cobsessive body-worship kind of thing.\u201d He connected that culture to bulimia, surgeries, and long-term physical damage. Coming from him, that hits a little differently. <em>Rocky<\/em> and <em>Rambo<\/em> helped set the standard for the action-hero physique, even if that look now seems almost restrained next to today\u2019s comic-book bodies.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There still aren\u2019t many hard numbers. USC\u2019s Dr. Todd Schroeder has estimated that <strong>50% to 75%<\/strong> of actors in superhero films use some form of PEDs, and comments from Frank Grillo, along with the speculation around Christian Bale and Chris Evans, show how uneven and murky the whole conversation still is.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you care about <em>Rocky<\/em>, or about what\u2019s really behind those blockbuster physical transformations, this is worth picking up. <em>Steps<\/em> is available <strong>now<\/strong>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sylvester Stallone\u2019s memoir Steps came out today, right on the 50th anniversary of Rocky. In it, he goes back over the years of rejection and career frustration that came before the 1976 film finally got made. The book also puts fresh attention on something Stallone has admitted more recently: he used steroids while getting ready &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/sylvester-stallones-rocky-memoir-is-out-now-physique-drug-claims-return\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sylvester Stallone\u2019s Rocky memoir is out now: physique drug claims return&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9352,"featured_media":379361,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[6869],"class_list":["post-379362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","content-category-streaming-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379363,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379362\/revisions\/379363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379362"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=379362"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=379362"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=379362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}