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Pushing My Limits (Athlete Journal 35)

This week I had to work around some groin, neck, and wrist issues, but I was still able to train.

Terry Hadlow

Written by Last updated on Oct 25, 2022

Saturday: Snatch Day

Today was speed snatch again, and my wrist was worse than last week. I tried to work my warm-up magic.

  • Speed snatch: 45kg for 2 sets of 6
  • Drop snatch: 45kg for 2 sets of 6
  • Speed snatch and snatch: 45kg for 2 x 1 + 1 x 3, then the same with 65kg
  • Power snatch from the floor with a snatch: 65kg 2 x 1 +1 x 3

From there I made a jump to 85kg and was barely able to hang on to the bar. My left wrist was just too sore for the overhead position. I switched to snatch pulls, doing 85kg, 105kg, and 115kg for three reps each set. It was a bit discouraging, because the weights didn’t feel that heavy.

Monday: Back Squats

  • Back Squat: 70kg for 2 sets of 6
  • Speed Squat: 110kg for 1 set of 6 speed squats
  • Front Squat: 110kg for 1 set of 6
  • Stop Squat: 110kg for 1 set of 6
  • 140kg for 5 regular squats with a stop squat, for a total of 6 reps. I dropped back down to 110kg and did a set of ten speeds. I stopped there as the right groin was pulling a little.

Tuesday: Clean and Jerk

I started with a warm up, which felt okay and was a nice change of pace.

  • 1 power clean, 1 clean, 3 front squats, and 1 jerk: 50kg
  • 1 power clean, 1 clean, 3 front squats, and 1 jerk: 70kg
  • 1 power clean, 1 clean, 3 front squats, and 1 jerk: 90kg
  • 1 power clean, 1 clean and 2 front squats, and 1 jerk: 100kg
  • 1 power clean, 1 clean and 2 front squats, and 1 jerk: 120kg
  • 1 power clean, 1 clean, 1 front squat, and 1 jerk for 2 sets: 125kg

I was pretty psyched. My legs felt great and I stood up easily, but the jerk still needs a little work.

Wednesday: Upper Body

I decided I was going to try a little upper body. It didn’t take me long to bail, as my wrist was just way too sore.

Thursday

Thursday was a pull workout, since I was just not able to do any overhead movements because of my wrist.

  • Snatch pulls from the hang: 60kg, 70kg, 80kg, 90kg for 5 reps each
  • Pulls from the floor: 115kg for one set of 3, down to 60kg for 2 sets of 5 to get some flow
  • 2 pulls, plus 1 slow pull: 60kg, 90kg, 115kg, 120kg, and 125kg

My legs were tired and my knee was sore.

Friday: Circuit Day

Today was a long circuit. Again the lazy man reared his ugly head and decided to do every second station for sixty minutes.

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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