Originally Posted by
Psychocycles
Sorry for the delay, thanks for the responses everyone! Yeah, I used to prioritize my upper body strength above all else but now I'm thinking to just maintain upper body & really double down on increasing FTP and cycling performance.
My hard workouts leave me feeling cooked inside, so even though strength work is a different energy system, I usually don't have the mental and/or physical capacity on a hard cycling day. I agree with OBoile...getting it done is more important than timing it perfectly; I just want to make sure I'm not compromising my cycling performance
. Anyway, I'm not pro, never will be, so maybe it's going too far to analyze it in such detail.
Well, you know what your priority is. So, I'd say just intend to do both, but if one has to be cut/reduced/taken easy due to scheduling or feeling run down or whatever, you know which one to cut. Also, keep in mind that in order to maintain, you need far less volume and intensity than you need to improve.