Periodizing training by focusing intensely on strength for two months while maintaining endurance, then shifting focus to endurance is a viable compromise.

“The other thing is spending different times when you focus on one thing versus the other. So the next two months, you're going to spend on hitting your strength hard and you're just going to do two hikes a week just for your health just to maintain. And then summer rolls around, and you put your lifting on the back burner, you lift less, not necessarily lighter, just less, and you spend a lot more time outdoors and do these different things.”