idea number of upper body workouts per week?

silverharp

Joined a gym in Dec to get over the winter slump and my normal fitnees has been running, cycling and hill walking so all legs. about a month ago I stwiched from doing for general gym workouts to doing 2 upperbody focused and 2 leg days. within the scheme of things is this optimal for upper body development or would 3 out of the 4 as upper body be better? from now on I will be doing a 10K run or 3ish hour cycle at the weekend on top or instead of a leg day depending how it works out.
in terms of goals I was planning that the gym work would support the running and cyclying but I am enjoying the upper body fitness I am getting so happy to treat it seperate from the other activites.

Mellor

What is you exact 4 day program.

Chances are you are looking at the wrong aspect of your training

silverharp

Mellor wrote: »

What is you exact 4 day program.

Chances are you are looking at the wrong aspect of your training

obviously at this stage I dont know enough to target specific groups just happy if overall fitness is increasing

"upper" days

10 min rowing machine warmup (moderate effort)

3X15 assisted chin up
3X10 Ab crunch
3X15 assisted dips
2X10 Bench Press
2X10 Bench Barbell Curl
3X10 uprights with a free weight
3 sets of "21's"
3x10 Ab Crunch
~10 minutes Cable workout
15 minute interval Treadmill

"lower" days

10 min rowing machine warmup (moderate effort)
3X15 seated leg press
2X10 Squat machine
2X10 leg press
3X10 Ab Crunch
2X10 each way on leg extention machine
2 rounds of walking weighted lunges
2 sets of "box step ons" weighted
3X10 Ab Crunch
15 minute interval Treadmill

(just introduced to Barbell squat so may swap out the squat machine in future)

silverharp

anyone? Bueller?