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Good Vibrations (Athlete Journal 30)

My body was feeling good this week, and I planned my workouts carefully to get in as much volume as I could.

Terry Hadlow

Written by Last updated on Nov 22, 2021

After a solid week in the gym, I’m looking forward to next week. My arms are looking up, so there is a positive vibe in my training.

Saturday

Today was power cleans, cleans, three front squats, and jerks. The warm up went well and my body was feeling good. Must be something in the air. I started with 50kg and did two sets, then made 20kg jumps to 110kg, where I did four sets. For the last three sets, the jerks were good, and felt comfortable and easy. I finished the work out off with clean pulls.

Clean pull

  • 135kg: 2 sets of 5
  • 150kg: 1 set of 3
  • 150kg: 1 set of 2 with 1 slow pull

Monday : Back Squats

I went light today in order to keep my legs from falling apart. I was hoping to be able to transfer strength gain into my snatch pull. I did 100kg for four sets of six, finishing with 130kg for a comfortable set, also for six. I moved onto speed squats, and my groin was feeling pretty good. I did 90kg for two sets of ten.

Tuesday: Snatch day

Snatch

  • 50kg: 2 sets of 6
  • 70 kg: 2 sets of 5
  • 80kg for 2 sets of 5

Power snatch from the hang

  • 70 kg for 2 sets of 5 – The weight was feeling heavy, but the movements were better than last week’s effort, so I lowered the weight and started power snatch from the floor.

Power snatch from the floor

  • 50kg: 5 reps
  • 70kg: 2 sets of 5
  • 80kg: 2 sets of 5

Snatch pulls

  • 110kg: 2 sets of 5
  • 125kg: 1 set of 3
  • 125kg: 1 set of 2 and a slow pull

Wednesday

On Wednesday I did a little upper body work to test out my wrist and elbow. I did inclines at 160lbs for four sets of six. My appendages felt pretty good, but I kept the dumbbell press and curls light, only doing 45lbs for two sets of six.

Thursday: Squats

I made sure my warm up would prepare me for the shock of doing 110 kg for 6, 4, and 2 x 2. It went pretty well I think, and I’m optimistic for the next series of next week. I finished off with speed squats at 80kg for two sets of ten. The groin wasn’t too bad.

Friday: Circuit Day

Friday was long circuit, for forty minutes. It felt exceptionally hard today, but in the end was very satisfying.

Terry Hadlow got started in Olympic weightlifting in 1970 and is the only Canadian to have competed in senior nationals in five different decades – 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s. Follow Terry’s journal here to learn about his approach to training and competing.

Terry Hadlow

About Terry Hadlow

Terry Hadlow started lifting in 1970 at the age of thirteen. He was a member of the CanadianJuniorNational team at seventeen, Senior B team at eighteen, and on the SeniorA team at nineteen. He was selected to three junior world teams and competed in two of them. His best finish was a tie for third place, but he lost on body weight. His best lifts as a junior were 140-167.5 in the 82.5 class. Terry won medals in the 1978 Commonwealth Games and 1979 Pan Am Games, and was selected to the 1980 and 1984 Canadian Olympic Games team. He competed in five senior world championships, with a best finish of twelfth in Moscow in 1983, with 90kg lifts of 155-185. Terry’s best lifts ever in competition were 160-190 and his best training lifts were 163-195 at 90kg.

Terry stopped lifting in 1991 age 33 and didn't touch a weight to Olympic lift again until 2005, at the age of 48. He went on to win the Masters Pan Am in 2006. At the age of fifty, Terry competed in the 2008 World Masters at 85kg in Greece and won with lifts of 112-135. In 2010 he went to Poland in the same category and won with lifts of 113-135. His best lifts in that division were 114-139. Those lifts were enough to qualify him for the Canadian Senior Championships as a53 year old. Terry is the only Canadian to have competed in senior nationals in five different decades -1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s.

After that, Terry took a break from world competition and trained to compete in competitions in North America.His last competition was the 2013 Pan Ams inChicago, Illinois. He won with lifts of 108 (world record)- 132, for a total of 240 (also a world record).

Terry always takes the summer off training, as his summer work schedule just doesn't allow time to workout. In addition, there’s no training in September as that’s Terry’s time to go R.V.-ing.

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