Hello Every One, I'm New to this sport

You might find that you need to decrease the weight that you are lifting when you start to cross train. You don't want to over work those muscles and risk injury. This site has a great routine for adding lifting to your tri training schedule!

hey...i know u...welcome.

Agree about the heavy lifting. I WAS a heavy lifter until I starting tri-training. Now, 2-3 times a week with medium weights to keep my strenght up. Your muscles will be so broken down and tired you won't complete your tri training and/or recovery completely. My 2 cents....

Tony

Welcome to the site. I am taking everyones advise on this one. I am used to a heavy lifting routine when I work out. Since I will be cross training I am going more for stamina than heavy.

Welcome Just,
You will love this site and the great, knowledgeable people here to help you. My words of wisdom are: Listen to your body, Rest at least one day a week, and Have fun!!!

Darlene

welcome to the site

Your weight training is probably going to have to change. When I got started, I was doing 4 sets of 10 reps with 225 pounds on the bench press (not too bad for an almost 40 year old guy). As I got more into the tri training, I decreased my weights and increased my reps. Unless you have been working out anaerobically already, you'll probably find yourself short-winded. Your body uses oxygen differently when lifting weights than it will when doing endurance exercises. In order to help me to be able to use oxygen more efficiently, I had to switch to the endurance type of weight lifting. I'm still not good at it, but it is helping and I am getting better.