Is it possible to manage road cycling and upper-body muscle gains from weight lifting?

Is it possible to manage road cycling and upper-body muscle gains from weight lifting?I'm 22, male, 6"0', 180lb. I ride 100km in less than 3 hours but can't lift my microwave alone. Here's my problem: I was a chubby kid up until I was 16, when I started road cycling with some friends, which led me to a 20kg loss and a fitter figure. The problem was that cycling 300 miles a week at such young age gave me weird muscle memory, shitty posture and my body shape today consists of having rugby player legs with pow-camp upper body. Cycling less while on college helped balancing both upper and lower body composition, but I'm still quite self concious about my weird body shape. That's why my goal now is to hit the gym and start lifting, which I've never done before. My main concern is that I don't want to give up on cycling to achieve these upper body goals. Is there any way cycling 100 to 150 miles a week won't mess with my weight gains from the lifting? I mean, with a good diet will I still be able to focus muscle gain on my upper body and still be able to cycle that much? Or will I have to stop cycling for some time so I can develop the body I want and then go back to cycling? Thanks for the help. Sorry for any weird phrasing here, I'm not a native english speaker. submitted by /u/pwnograph [link] [comments]

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