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Training Split:
Day 1. Push (Pushing Dominos)
Day 2. Pull (Pull Yourself Together)
Day 3. Legs (Don’t You Say Legs)
Day 4. Push Pump (The Juggernaut)
Day 5. Pull Pump (Cable’s Arsenal)
Day 6. Leg Pump (Knew You Were Going to Say Legs)
What’s Included:
App Access, Desktop Dashboard, & eBook
9-Week Deadpool 2, Dumbbell Program
Exercise Demonstration Videos
Weight Logging & Tracking
Nutrition Guide, Supplement Guide, & Macro Guide
Private Group Access
There is no subscription for the Don Saladino app. The app is FREE. Your purchased programs will be stored & accessed within your app account.
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
The Next Level of the Trilogy
This is the program Ryan Reynolds used to prep for Deadpool 2. Designed by me in 2017, this isn't a guess. This is the real deal. It’s brutal, effective, and engineered for a performance physique that delivers both aesthetics and athleticism. A 6-day training schedule built for serious commitment. Each day is themed, fun, and brutally effective.
👉 Beginners: Ease in, master the moves, build your foundation.
👉 Veterans: Unleash it. Crank the intensity. Train like the credits are rolling.
🛠️ PROGRAM STRUCTURE
Day 1: Push (Pushing Dominos)
Begin the program with a push-focused workout, utilizing dumbbells for chest presses, shoulder presses, and triceps extensions. Emphasize shoulder health with external rotations and reverse flys, while challenging your pushing power with variations of chest presses and dips.
Day 2: Pull (Pull Yourself Together)
Target your pulling strength with exercises like dumbbell pullovers, rows, and reverse flys. Hammer curls and concentration curls focus on building biceps, while mobility work prepares your shoulders and spine for optimal pulling mechanics.
Day 3: Legs (Don’t You Say Legs)
Focus on lower-body strength and mobility with goblet squats, RFESS (rear foot elevated split squats), and dumbbell RDLs. Add in leg curl and calf raise variations to build hypertrophy while ensuring that your hips and hamstrings are well-stretched and primed for growth.
Day 4: Push Pump (The Juggernaut)
Hit the chest, shoulders, and triceps with high rep pressing and fly variations. Pressing movements such as the neutral grip floor press and ½ kneeling dumbbell press are combined with accessory work for shoulders and triceps to cap off a powerful upper-body pump.
Day 5: Pull Pump (Cable’s Arsenal)
Build your pulling strength with dumbbell rows, pullover variations, and suitcase carries. Work your back and arms with reverse flys and alternating rows, while challenging your core with plank walkouts and dynamic stretches.
Day 6: Leg Pump (Knew You Were Going to Say Legs)
Finish off the week with a leg pump session that targets the quads, hamstrings, and calves. Walking lunges, goblet squats, and dumbbell leg curls, along with calf raises, complete the full lower-body workout designed for hypertrophy and mobility.
🚀 PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
+ Verified: The exact structure used for Deadpool 2 (no guesswork here)
+ Intensity on tap: Load it heavy, tempo it slow, burn it out
+ Smart layering: Every workout stacks strength, mobility, and physique enhancement
+ Functional aesthetics: Built to look the part and move like a superhero
+ Optional Cardio Finishers – Torch fat, boost endurance, and level up your conditioning. Just like we did with Ryan during the prep for Deadpool.
Buy the DEADPOOL 2, DUMBBELL PROGRAM and start today!
To get familiar with the app, check out the How to Use the App video in the sidebar and the How to Use the App guide in the Resources section, located in the footer.
While logging your workout, tap the History Button ↺ (second icon in the footer), a pop-up screen will appear with your logging history for the exercise, tap Close in the upper left corner to return to logging.
You can change from pounds to kilograms by tapping Settings in the lower right of the footer, toggling the slider on for Metric, and tapping Save in the upper right corner.
Ryan’s Testimonial
“If there is one thing Don Saladino will get you… he will get you results. He knows what he is doing - that guy!”
Deadpool FAQs
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Don has trained Ryan Reynolds since 2009. He trained him for all three Deadpool movies.
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This is the first official Deadpool program that Don wrote in 2014 to help Ryan prepare for the role. Every other Deadpool program out there is just a guess at how he trained.
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No—absolutely not! Deadpool 1, Deadpool 2, and Deadpool 3 were created in 2014, 2017, and 2023, respectively. Ryan didn’t complete them back-to-back; these were written years apart. Each program stands on its own and does not build on the previous one.
In my opinion, Deadpool 2 is the most challenging. It follows a 6-day training split, which demands a high level of commitment.