How to add in conditioning
Hello , I'm a 34, year old, male trainee; I weigh 173 and I am 164 cm tall; my best lifts are:
- squat 5x1 355
- deadlift 1x3 360
- bench 3x2 222
- press 5x1 150
my current program is:
Monday:
- squat 5RM
- press 5x5 80%
- weighted chins 3x5
Wednesday:
- press 5x1
- squat 4x5
- triceps extensions 3x5-8
Friday:
- deadlift 5RM
- close grip bench 5RM
- close grip bench 3x5 80%
- chins 3x10
I've read Nick's article on conditioning, and form what I understood, you do NLP without conditioning, and when you enter intermediate programming you chose a sport and you get enough conditioning by practicing the sport; and only if you get really advanced in your sport, then there is a need for a more specialized and individual programming for conditioning;
My question is, if you don't want to practice any sport, but still want to ad in some conditioning, how do you do that, and when do you do it
I have no access to a prowler or a rower, I only have access to a elliptical, or bodyweight activities like running, jump rope, etc
I was thinking of elliptical would be the better option because you can make it harder by increasing the level of friction, and you can't do that with bodyweight stuff
Also, when is it preferable to do conditioning?; I was thinking of doing it on my offdays, but I think it kind of interferes with recovery for the next day of strength training, so maybe do the conditioning on the same day as strength but as far apart from the strength training as you can, and do your strength training first and conditioning later in that day?; what is preferable here?
Thank you!