What are the best strength training moves to incorporate with a 70.3 training plan? And when is the best time to fit them. I’m having a hard time trying to get strength training in with the plan.
It all depends on your priorities. I lift 2/week and only swim 2/week. I know that heavy strength training will adapt my next day to endurance or recovery days, but I don’t care. As my race gets closer, I drop one of my strength workouts and add back the 3rd swim.
For lower body I rotate between 1) squats 2) Romanian deadlifts, 3) leg press. For upper body I rotate between 1) lat pull downs 2) bent over barbell rows 3) bench press. I do two lower body and one upper body twice a week. I add core/rotation/balance on after the heavy lifting.
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@eddiegrinwald had some nice resources on this thread.
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Twice a week immediately after master’s I do strength training. I concentrate on Core and Glute activation.
Start in the off season. 
You get lots of opinions and ideas. I started last winter (2x per week) and had to go into maintenance during the season. I was well past the DOMS phase but my legs would be trashed for days and I couldn’t push the same watts in my bike workouts.
I tried once a week but it was still too much. I tried the Joe Friel periodization method of less weight and high reps during the season and that was still too much. Lately I’m now down to still doing upper body once a week and maybe one set of legs like every week or two just for maintenance. That seems to be working. I can recover within a day or two and my bike workouts for the rest of the week aren’t impacted.
Of course, it all depends on when you have races and what your priority is. Some people just like to lift. You could also just start really light now and work on all the movements and techniques until the fall when you could load up the weight.