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Athlete Journal: Terry Hadlow, Entry 18 – 2/24/2014

My work schedule is getting heavy, so I have to pick and choose my workout scheme carefully to make sure I maintain quality.

Terry Hadlow

Written by Terry Hadlow Last updated on February 24, 2014

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 18 – 2/24/2014

My work schedule is getting heavy, so I have to pick and choose my workout scheme carefully to make sure I maintain quality. The fear I have is that the rhythm of work will get disrupted. When that happens, all kinds of problems rear their ugly heads. I have to spend more time in training sessions outside the weight room to make up for the lost time that should be done in the training hall.

Monday

I had to miss Monday’s workout, but I hoped to make up for it sometime during the week.

Tuesday

Tuesday became Monday’s session, but had to be abbreviated due to other commitments.

  • Speed snatch: 60kg x 2 x 6 reps
  • 70kg x 2 x 6 reps
  • Power snatch from the hang: 70kg x 2 x 6 reps
  • 80kg x 2 x 6 reps

With limited time, I started pulls doing 110kg x 2 x 6 reps and 125kg x 2 x 4 reps, with the last two reps of the final set being slow pulls.

Wednesday: Squat Day

Wednesday was squat day and I felt awful. I spent at least an hour in the warm up, but nothing seemed to get my body functioning at the level it needed to be at to handle the weights on the schedule. I tried the weights anyway, thinking that the stress might wake me up. No such luck. The weights were heavy and I struggled with most of them. The last straw was the level of difficulty 130kg gave me. I could only manage two reps and each one crushed me like a bug. It was stupid, so I bailed out of the workout.

As the day progressed, there was a break in my day that gave me the opportunity for another workout. I decided to try that back squat session again – after all, what’s the worst that can happen, a repeat of the morning workout? The warm up went well and I felt optimistic with the direction this decision was taking. I got to 130kg and got two sets of six reps with no real problem. What a difference five hours can make. I jumped to 150kg and got the two sets of four reps, with the last rep of the second set a three-second stop squat. I was feeling good and took 100kg for two sets of ten reps in the speed squat, which were easy. Good decision to repeat.

Thursday

I woke up Thursday morning and my legs were a little sore, but mobility was okay. This was surprising, considering the abuse they took the previous day. My warm up went well and I decided to proceed with the planned workout for today. I had clean and jerks on the slate but decided most of the work was going to be power rather than full clean.

  • Two speed cleans and a jerk: 70kg x 2 x 2
  • Two speed cleans and a jerk: 80kg x 2 x 2 – These weren’t bad, and I could feel things loosening up, so I moved on to the next exercise.
  • Two power cleans from the hang with a jerk: 80kg x 2
  • Two power cleans from the hang with a jerk: 90kg x 2
  • Power clean from the floor with a jerk: 100kg x 3
  • Power clean from the floor with a jerk: 110kg x 3 – This went so well I decided to do some full cleans and jerks.
  • Clean and one jerk: 80kg x 1 x 3 sets
  • Clean and one jerk: 100kg x 1 x 2 sets – These were good, but the fatigue in my legs became more evident with each lift. I figured I was good for one more set, then lights out. I loaded 110kg and huffed and puffed my way through three clean and jerks. Things went well, but I could tell my body would soon rebel.

Friday: Circuit Day

Friday was fitness day and the circuit was sixty minutes long. I was not looking forward to this workout. As I feared, the session was long and gruesome, but I pleaded and begged my body to perform to the bitter end. Now it’s done, and I don’t have to do that again for another four weeks.

Saturday

Saturday was a day off the weight room but another opportunity to perfect the art of snow shoveling.

Sunday

Sunday morning was a repeat of Wednesday morning. Once again I was feeling awful on a squat day. I tried to get going, but all the weights felt heavy and burdensome. I was supposed to do 120kg for 6 + 4 + 2 stop squats for two sets. On my first set of 120kg, I could only manage four reps. The second set was two reps and they were not even stop squats, so I decided this portion of the day was over. I switched to five snatch pulls with a power snatch as the sixth rep. I did 55kg for three sets, then took 65kg and 75kg for a set, and finished off with 85kg for two sets.

I managed to salvage something from this day. I’m guessing that I won’t be able to work out now till Wednesday.

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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