Sylvester Stallone's daughters receive 'rigorous' Navy SEAL training ahead of NYC move

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Sylvester Stallone, the iconic actor renowned for his tough-guy persona, is equally devoted to safeguarding his family, especially his daughters. Before their relocation to New York City, Stallone undertook extraordinary measures to ensure the safety of his two oldest daughters, Sophia and Sistine.

In a recent interview with the New York Post preceding the premiere of 'The Family Stallone' season two, Sophia and Sistine shed light on their father's initiatives to equip them for life in the city. They disclosed that Stallone went as far as hiring Navy SEALs to impart self-defense training to them before the move.

Sylvester Stallone ensures daughters' safety with Navy SEAL training

The training, meticulously captured on film for their reality show, proved to be far from easy. Sistine described it initially as "really nice and kind of fluffy," but soon realized it was the "hardest" thing they had ever encountered.

"It was about six hours we were in those woods," she recounted. "They made it a cute little montage, Sophia and I got our a***s whooped by these guys, they were the real deal."

Despite the edited footage portraying a "cute little montage," she emphasized that they were put through rigorous challenges by the real-deal Navy SEALs.

Sistine also said that she was "not surprised my dad put us through something like this because our entire life we grew up with him doing these sort of military-esque self-defense trainings."

Sophia agreed, saying, "It was a rigorous routine, it was every day at 6 a.m. he would make us eat eggs with ketchup, for some reason that combination was like an elite combination."

She said their upbringing was "a lot of sit-ups, push-ups, pull-ups, clean and jerks, it was golfing, it was pool table, it was shot put."

Stallone's daughters on their father's protective nature

In a revealing scene from 'The Family Stallone,' viewers witnessed Sophia and Sistine Stallone undergoing Navy SEAL training, including a memorable challenge of chasing a chicken reminiscent of a scene from their father's iconic film, 'Rocky II.'

Sylvester Stallone, explaining the exercise, said, "Chasing a chicken sounds like a fun game. You have to have speed, patience, agility and understand that you're going to be beaten by something that weighs three pounds and has a beak."

"That is deceivingly hard," Sistine told The Post. "I went in there a little cocky, no pun intended. I got beat by the chicken."

When asked about their father's level of concern now that they have been living in New York for a year, Sistine shared that Sylvester Stallone remains as nervous as ever.

Describing him as a "classic, overprotective dad," she added, "I don’t think he’ll ever be less nervous. Three daughters at an age where, you know, we’re kind of all over the place and we’re out and about."

Scarlet Stallone, the third daughter and currently a student at the University of Miami, highlighted her father's unwavering commitment to their safety, emphasizing that their well-being always comes first for him.

"He's always cared about safety no matter what, that safety is before anything for him," she said.

Sophia Stallone added a poignant detail, revealing that their mother, Jennifer Flavin, helps ease Stallone's concerns by using a tracking app to keep tabs on their whereabouts, providing him with some reassurance despite the distance between them.