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You're so vein! Sylvester Stallone shows off his bulging spaghetti stringed arms
Last updated at 4:23 PM on 12th July 2010
Sylvester Stallone appears to be suffering some side-effects from his vigorous workout regime and distinct lack of body fat.
The 64-year beefcake actor rolled up his sleeves while he was out and about yesterday, revealing forearms heavily threaded with unsightly, thick bulging veins.
The overly tanned star was spotted stocking up on some magazines at a newstand in Malibu, picking out a total of 20 fitness and fighting magazines.
Muscle man: Sylvester Stallone showed off his unsightly
arm veins during a trip to a newstand yesterday in Malibu
Prominent veins, such as Stallone's, are often the result of very low body fat and occur most often on body builders and atheletes.
The veins usually occur as a result of weight bearing exercises. The body needs to pump oxygen into the veins for these kinds of exercises and this causes the veins to expand.
Over worked: Bulging veins are often the result of working out heavily and dieting strenuously
When a person excercises heavily and diets strenuously the fat gets stripped away and the veins become exposed.
Stallone has been working out heavily recently for his new movie, The Expendables, which he wrote as well as directed and starred in.
He plays a mercenary who heads to South America to overthrow a dictator.
The movie's cast reads like a who's who of action stars, including Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Back in 2007 Stallone pleaded guilty to importing Jintropin, a banned human growth hormone into Australia.
The vital ingrediant in Jintropin is somatropin, which is advertised as reducing body fat, boosting muscle mass, improving sexual prowess and regenerating major organs.
Two years ago, during an appearance on U.S. news show Red Eye, Stallone's ex-fiancée, Janice Dickinson shockingly claimed that she witnessed Stallone injecting steroids during their relationship.
The former supermodel dated the Rambo star in the early 1990s, but split when Stallone discovered Dickinson's new born daughter, Savannah wasn't his.
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