: Rate my upper/lower split About me I'm 16 years old, can bench about 45kg, do 16 pull ups, 120 kg leg press for 10 reps, 15 kg barbell biceps curl for about 6 reps I've been looking through all sorts of upper/lower splits,

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Rate my upper/lower split
About me
I'm 16 years old, can bench about 45kg, do 16 pull ups, 120 kg leg press for 10 reps, 15 kg barbell biceps curl for about 6 reps

I've been looking through all sorts of upper/lower splits, and the one that I like the most is:
Day 1(Lower day)

Day 2(Upper day)

Day 3 - Rest
Day 4(Lower day)

Day 5(Upper day)

Day 6 - Rest
Day 7 - Rest

As you've probably noticed I haven't added any compound movemenets, like squat and deadlift, apart from bench press to my program. Because, I was doing squats the other day, and a trainer came to me and pointed out that I was doing squats wrong, she explained that it was to a number of reasons:

Mostly because I am simply not strong enough to do such compound movements
Also I dont have the mobility and lower back strenth to squat to proper depth without rounding my spine and butt wink

As doing squats(or deadlifts) with improper form is extremely dangerous I decided to make a program without them, that I'll run for a couple of month, or just untill I get strong enough.
I left the bench press there, because imo it's a bit easier to master, and I have a friend who's been doing bench presses for quite some time, so he's helping me with the form. But I'm not very sure if doing bench presses when you are starting out in the gym is a good thing, should I switch to doing Dumbell bench press or is there any other safer alternative?
About leg day
Most of the excercises are supersets, on the first excercise of the superset I'm generally doing lower reps, since I'm primarily shooting for strength gains, but the secone excercises are 20-40 reps, since they are bodyweight, so should I keep them as is(I'm planning to run bodyweight for the first 3 weeks untill I really nail down the form) or do these bodyweight movements with dumbells and reduce the number of reps?
Why I chose this upper lower split

It's an upper lower split, which means that I'm going to be hitting a muscle group twice a week, which is better that a regular "bro"(bodypart) split.
This plan is quite simple, and has the excersises which I'm
somewhat comfortable with.

So how is my program overall, what would you change, etc.?

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