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Athlete Journal: Terry Hadlow, Entry 15 – 2/3/2014

Between two rest days this week and a rough snatch workout, I wasn't at 100 percent. Fortunately a good front squat session on Sunday saved my training week.

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EDITOR’S NOTE: Welcome to the athlete journal of Terry Hadlow. Terry 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.

Athlete Journal Entry 15 – 2/3/2014

Monday

I’ve decided that cleans will continue as the opening week’s exercise until a problem develops.

  • Speed cleans: 75 x 2 x 6
  • 85 x 2 x 6 reps
  • Power cleans from the hang: 85 x 2 x 6
  • 95 x 2 x 6 reps – these were done quite comfortably. My nervous system seemed to be firing on all cylinders so I was pumped for power cleans from the floor. These are my favorite during clean day because I never seem to get that tired during the set.
  • 95 x 2 x 6
  • 105 x 2 x 6 reps – these were all pretty easy. I should have taken more but time was up!

Tuesday: Upper Body Circuit

I decided to put the focus on the narrow pulls today, doing sets with 160kg and 190kg. The rest of the weights are basically the same with behind neck presses with 120kg and inclines at 155kg. I finished off with one set at 175kg and curls with 30lbs dumbbells.

Wednesday: Rest Day

Wednesday was a day off as I had much work that I had to get done. No more procrastinating.

Thursday: Snatch Day

Thursday was snatch day and I felt awful. I started with speed snatches.

  • 66kg x 6 reps – My breathing was laborious and I hoped things would get better.
  • 73kg x 6 reps – The weights went up, but my body was rebelling.
  • 82kg x 6 reps – I started thinking, “What am I doing here?” I decided to take 65kg from the hang and nearly passed out. That was enough. My session was over!

Friday: Circuit Day

Friday was long circuit day and I wasn’t looking forward it. It was one of our group’s birthday so we had 44 minutes on the agenda. It went okay, but I could feel the lag from Thursday.

Saturday

I took Saturday off because I still wasn’t functioning at 100% – maybe 70% – and I wanted to give Sunday’s front squats a real go.

Sunday

If Sunday went well, I knew I could salvage the week, even though Monday went great. I started cautiously with my warm up and carefully progressed through my routine.

  • 50kg x 3 sets x 6 reps – Not bad.
  • 90kg x 6 reps
  • 115kg – This jump was done with mediocre confidence but the first series of six, four, and two stop squats went well.

I approached the next series with a great degree of confidence and the six, four, and two stop squats in the second were easier than the first. They went so well that I decided to do two sets of ten reps with 70kg in the speed squats. I finished the workout contented with the idea my Sunday workout saved my training week. I hope that doesn’t happen too often.

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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