More Upper/Lower Nonsense

[northernstar]

So I've finally attempted to put together my own split instead of modifying others'. (Specifically T's 3 day)
I've never done an upper/lower before and I'm going for the following:
Heavy Horizontal/Light Vertical
Heave Ham/Light Quad
Heavy Vertical/Light Horizontal
Heavy Quad/Light Ham

I'm thinking 5x5 for heavy lifts, 3x10 for lighter lifts.

Day 1:
Bench press 5x5
Bent Over Rows 5x5
DB press 3x10
Close Grip Pulldowns 3x10

Day 2:
CDLs 5x5
Front Squat 3x10
Split Squat 3x10

Day 3:
Military Press 5x5
Lat Pulldown 5x5
Incline DB press 3x10
Seated Row 3x10

Day 4:
Full Squat 5x5
RDLs 3x10
Reverse Lunges or Step Up 3x10

I'll fit cardio in where I can, I'm aiming for fat loss (...who isn't? lol) and my diet's on so I'm losing really well. I just want to change up my training.
I tried to keep push/pull moves even (which I think I've done pretty well). There's not a huge variance on rep ranges, should I change this?
Any comments are very much appreciated.


EDIT - for spelling

[jaleena]

The shoulders typically go first on front squats, so I'd be doing these with a lower rep range myself.
And RDL's, while fine form-wise for higher-reps, are also very good for low-reps, because the hams respond very well to low reps.
Otherwise, looks good to me...but I'm not the pickiest one here :lol:

[Erik]

Heavy Horizontal/Light Vertical
Heave Ham-Dom/Heavy Quad
Heavy Vertical/Light Horizontal
Heavy Quat/Light Ham

Correct the second leg day. Did you mean heavy ham and light quads?

[Erik]

I don't mind the upper days but I think two 3x10 movements for your light work, is overkill on your lower days. you're looking at about 85 reps for both quads and hams, which coupled with one, submaintenance calories and two, cardio, is going to be too much I think.

Remember, you can decrease volume on a diet, and likely should, since your recovery capabilities are going to be less.

[northernstar]

Originally posted by thunder+--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (thunder)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Correct the second leg day. Did you mean heavy ham and light quads? [/b]
Whoops. Fixed that.

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I don&#39;t mind the upper days but I think two 3x10 movements for your light work, is overkill on your lower days. you&#39;re looking at about 85 reps for both quads and hams, which coupled with one, submaintenance calories and two, cardio, is going to be too much I think. [/quote]
Drop one of the 3x10 moves on each day?
...example...
Day 2:
CDLs 5x5
Split Squats 3.10

Day 4:
Full Squats 5x5
RDLs 3x10

.... better?

[Erik]

It&#39;s better. Then you can throw in calves and abs if you want there or something.

[northernstar]

Originally posted by Thunder@Jun 24 2006, 02:00 PM
It&#39;s better. Then you can throw in calves and abs if you want there or something.
Awesome, thanks.