Matt Nichol, the Toronto-based fitness guru, was sitting in his windowless office, just a few steps from the windowless gym where he trains his athletes. He smiled: “We’re pretty rugged.” His gym gets ...

In any self-respecting sports flick, you can expect to find a training montage or two. In the case of the Rocky franchise, we’ve been treated to an abundance of them, putting our heroes through ...

In the 1985 boxing classic, Rocky IV, there is a training montage that spans roughly eight minutes of the movie (not counting the brief conversation between Rocky Balboa and his wife in the middle).