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As a lifelong gym bro letting go of lifting has been one of the hardest parts of adopting the uphill way…
The goal of endurance training is to stack as much aerobic volume as possible, this usually requires tapering your strength training down to maintenance levels because eventually you will run out of time, and/or your body won’t be able to handle the training load. Especially if you are planning to incorporate more sport specific training like the crippling Gym ME workout.
In summary, I would say your lifting routine is only a problem if it prevents you from adding aerobic volume. Personally, I found it helpful to break up my year into a lifting phase and an endurance phase, so I am not running my body into the ground trying to do both.