DAVE HONIG HAS BROUGHT THE ELITE FITNESS LEVELS OF SPORT CLOSER TO THE WORLD’S BIGGEST STARS. ACK IN 1976, Sylvester Stallone brought out Rocky. Not everyone thought it was a great movie. It was, in fact, so crammed with pugilistic and cinematic cliches that many serious critics were wondering whether we were victims of some elusive irony that never, even subtly, declared itself. But the most admirable thing about the movie was the way Stallone, determined to play the part of the lead character himself, trained for the role. Via a rigorous personal regime, Stallone got himself fit and muscular and passed into filmic, if not fistic, legend.
Before that, fit actors and other stars were people who came from other backgrounds. Kirk Douglas had been an acrobat before he…
