Weights on Recovery weeks?

MJuric said:

What does everyone do were lifting is concerned, if you lift, on recovery weeks. Continue the same
routine, cut back to "lighter" lifting regime or lay off completely.

~Matt

Depending on your overall schedule, you can and should continue lifting during the recovery week. In
fact, for winter training, you should probably not cut back that much on weight, but continue with
the existing periodization for that program. I do some of my heaviest and most productive lifting in
the winter. For recovery weeks in the early base phase, there is not that much intensity to "recover
from" so you don't need to cut back.

Now for recovery weeks for peak Ironman training, you might consider lighter weights. Actaully, you
most folks cut back on weights for every week during very high volume/intensity, simply maintaining
strength. That being said, strength training is not reduced by the same high percentage that you do
for the three sports. Since weights account for only 2-3 hours out of a 20-30 hour Ironman training
week, there is not that much need to cut. Some folks could say something similar about swimming:
since you don't swim as much to begin with, you don't need to cut back that much. Now those of you
swimming 6km a day, 5 days a week, may well need to cut back, but that is a very small percentage of
triathletes.