Stephen Amell Workout Routine for Arrow

                                           This is not your Daddy's superhero

Green Arrow is a fictional superhero that appears in comic books published by DC Comics. Originally one of the earlier Golden Age superhero characters, Green Arrow was often teamed up with the better known Green Lantern. Admittedly, I was skeptical when I heard they were making a television episode remake of one of my favorite comic book characters. Until the movies Iron Man, and The Avengers, comic book screen adaptions have always lacked depth and often stray too far from the original story. So I was impressed when I decided to sit down and watch a few episodes of Arrow on Netflix. Sure, Slinging arrows and doing acrobat stunts hardly compares to flying and blasting bad guys like Iron Man. But Arrow delivers an action-packed, suspenseful story that is has an edgy feel that the original Green Arrow could only wish for. This sleek, modern-day adaption of Green Arrow gives new life to the old one, and leaves you wanting to find out what happens next to the bad-ass arrow slinger.

Steven Amell wealthy playboy Oliver Queen, who returns from a remote island off the North China Sea where he was stranded for five years after a shipwreck. Right away, we see that Oliver is a changed man. And he keeps the details of that fact a closely guarded secret. To the world, Queen plays the part of a party-loving rich guy, but by night, he's the Arrow, a crime-fighting vigilante who wields a bow and arrow with deadly accuracy.

The action-packed show is full of fight scenes and acrobatics with Amell doing the majority of the stunts himself. To pull it off, Amell had to get in stellar, superhero worthy shape. He even elevates himself up a series of metal rungs with just a metal bar - a feat that’s called a salmon ladder and is part of Stephen Amell’s real life workout routine to work on his physique. It is compound exercises like this which makes Stephen Amell so fit. Check out Amell's amazing display of upper body strength and definition in this clip:

What enables Stephen Amell to be able to look like that and perform some of his stunts is that he focuses quite a bit on functional strength and compound exercises; Stephen Amell said he actually did Parkour as part of his workout regimen.

The following exercises and workouts consists of a lot of compound exercises that builds up muscles but also enables you to become more agile and flexible to move around your surroundings.  They aren’t the simplest exercises, but if you want to be cut like Stephen Amell, you should be doing these exercises.

Workout A (Chest/Triceps/Abs)

4 sets of Incline dumbbell press of 6-8 reps

4 sets of Flat bench press of 10-12 reps

3 sets of weighted dips of 8-10 reps

4 sets of tricep rope extension of 10-12 reps

3 sets of hanging leg raises of 10 reps

Workout B (Legs/Calves)

4 sets of rack pulls of 5 rps

4 sets of dumbbell Bulgarian Split Squats of 8-10 reps

3 sets of Weighted hyper extension of 8-10 reps

5 sets of Calf raise (any variation) of 12 reps

Workout C (Back/ Biceps/ Abs)
4 sets of Weighted chin ups of 6-8 reps
4 sets of Barbell row of 6-8 reps
3 sets of Barbell curls of 8-10 reps
3 sets of Hammer curls of 8-10 reps
3 sets of Hanging leg raises of 10 reps 

There are many other exercises that you can implement in your workout. These are just some of the example exercises that you can do to get that Stephen Amell body.

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