Originally Posted by Carbonfiberboy

Hillarious. Let me know when you're making progress on your lifts while your aerobic TSS is ~600. Last Sunday I rode 75 miles and 5500' then hiked for 4.5 hours the next day with a 25# backpack. This coming Sunday, I'll ride 115 miles and 7000', and of course I rode during the week some, too. That should give me a TSS for the week of 659. Then I'll hike the next day, too.

Lifting at all while doing strenuous cycling training is already a bit unusual. There are serious endurance cyclists on BF who think any lifting is a bad idea. That is a reasonable viewpoint with some scientific studies to support it. It's even more outré to lift during the competitive season. In fact I had to eliminate my gym day this week because the training stress was already at (or maybe over) my limit.

Most of the year, I lift twice a week for about 2 total hours. That's enough to make progress. Once a week maintains the strength and thigh muscle size I achieved during the build phase.

You're doing everything perfectly w/r to diet and training. So go out for a bike shop group ride and see if you can stay with the leaders on the hills. That's the only rational metric for a cyclist. How much one can lift really makes no difference. Only climbing performance counts.