What's the downfall of splitting up SS exercises?

[Andre4000]

After doing SS by the book for 4-5 months I kind of got burned out, probably because of the dread of squatting before every workout. I found that I wasn't looking forward to my workouts and they weren't as intense as when I began SS.

So I decided to keep mainly doing the SS workouts but just split them up differently.

One day I do squats/deadlifts
The second day I do bench work for the chest and some arm stuff for good measure
The third day I do military press, bent over barbell row, and weighted chin ups

I know that there are benefits to squatting before doing upper-body exercises, and I won't be getting those benefits since I am only squatting on my lower-body day. But how much will my progress be hindered by this, and are there any supplementary exercises that could offset only squatting once a week? Will I still see the central nervous system benefits that Rippetoe cites in his promoting of squatting before every workout?

[guest89]

Why don't you just do 5x5 instead? Which is the normal protocol after someone leaves SS.

Here is a site with the different variants
http://xtort.net/bill-starrs-5-x-5-training/

This is the version I'm using, which explains the program in detail. http://www.wackyhq.com/madcow5x5/geo...Linear_5x5.htm



For me its a lot less taxing then SS.