Stallone’s daughters trained by Navy Seals

THE ACTOR Sylvester Stallone recruited US Navy Seals to train his daughters in self-defence after they moved to New York amid fears over the city’s crime rate.

Despite being a New York native, Stallone was “nervous” about his daughters, Sophia, 27, and Sistine, 25, moving to the city last year.

The pair endured gruelling, hours-long intensive training boot camp sessions with elite special forces instructors, they told the New York Post.

“Sophia and I got our a--es whooped by these guys. They were the real deal,” Sistine said.

Stallone, 77, who made his name as the boxing hero of the “Rocky” franchise, appeared to have some fun in challenging his daughters.

One of their tasks was to chase a chicken, reminiscent of a scene in Rocky II when Stallone himself ran around a yard attempting the same.

Stallone’s daughters with his wife and former model Jennifer Flavin, grew up in Los Angeles, California.

The siblings have been living in New York for a year, but the pair said their move to the US east coast was still nerve-racking for their father.

While crime rates overall, and particularly violent crime, have fallen in New York in the last year, the rate of assaults has increased, according to New York Police Department data.

“I don’t think he’ll ever be less nervous,” Sistine said of her father. “He’s like a classic, overprotective dad. Three daughters at an age where, you know, we’re kind of all over the place and we’re out and about.”

But the daughters revealed that, to soothe their fears, their mother still tracks their movements using an iPhone app. Sistine said she was not surprised their father put them through the ordeal, “because our entire life we grew up with him doing these sort of military-esque, self-defence trainings. He made the perfect boys,” she joked.

Sophia described it as a “rigorous” childhood routine: “Every day at 6 am, he would make us eat eggs with ketchup… to bulk up...a lot of sit ups, push ups, pull ups.”