Stallone knocked out sex to prep for film

[Brian Damage]

Talk about sacrificing for your craft: Sylvester Stallone says he gave up sex to improve his on-screen performance in “Rocky Balboa.”

The 60-year-old actor said he had to stop doing the deed while shooting his latest flick because he needed to save his energy.

“At 60 you don’t have as much energy as you did back when you were 30, so you have to conserve every bit you can,” the “Rocky” star said while promoting his latest flick. “Giving up sex isn’t really that hard to do and it’s well known that it can improve your performance in sports — or on a movie.”
His abstinence may have paid off. Although Stallone is a regular winner of the Razzie Awards handed out to the worst flicks and performances, the actor — with 30 nominations and 10 wins under his belt — was shut out of this year’s Razzies.

“At the first of the year, you could not have convinced me [“Rocky Balboa”] wasn’t going to be a Razzie contender,” Razzies founder John Wilson recently conceded. “I would like to publicly say that Stallone has made a good movie.”