Breaking Muscle

Breaking Muscle

Learn

Regaining My Confidence (Athlete Journal 51)

My groin and elbow were much better this week. I'm starting to feel like I might have a fighting chance.

Terry Hadlow

Written by Last updated on Nov 22, 2021

Monday

I started the week with an upper body circuit. I used 130lb for military presses, 140lb for inclines, 150lb for narrow grip pulls, and 35lb for curls. I did four circuits.

Tuesday

Back to clean and jerks and the combos. I did a combination of power cleans and clean and jerk, starting with 50kg, 70kg, and 90kg for two sets with that combination. I jumped to 110kg for one set and then 120kg for four sets, finishing off with clean and jerk with 125kg. On the first set I missed the jerk, and on the second set, missed the clean as I pulled it out a little too far in front. On the third set, I made the clean and jerk.

Wednesday: Back Squats

My legs were a little tired, but no discomfort anywhere during warm up. Started with 20kg for a solid two sets of six. I jumped to 70kg for two sets of six reps, then on to 100kg and 120kg for one set each. I finished off with 140kg for two sets of six, a set of four, and a set of two stop squats. The two stop squats were quite comfortable.

I’m starting to get confidence back in my leg strength. I did speed squats to test my groin, with two sets of ten reps. I had absolutely no problem and did them quite easily. It’s a good day. Yay, me!

Thursday: Physiotherapy

I worked my wrist, and was feeling fairly comfortable. There was no swelling, and the scaphoid has disappeared back into my wrist. I spent Thursday evening doing my warm up protocol.

Friday: Circuit Day

Sixty minutes, 35 minutes on, 25 minutes off. This was very hard – no, it was really hard. Did I tell you how hard it was? Again, the wrist and groin felt pretty good, even though it was really, really hard.

Saturday

I did my warm up routine but tweaked my right glute, so decided I was going to spend the rest of the time trying to settle that down.

Sunday: Snatch

My right glute was still a little tender, but I decided I was going to try and do some snatch work. I wanted to see if I could make adjustments to accommodate some level of work. I started off with snatch pulls, power snatch, and snatch, doing two sets with 30kg and two sets with 35kg and 50kg. From 60kg, I took 5kg jumps all the way to 90kg.

My glute felt okay in the pull and power snatch, but it was a little tender at the bottom position of each full snatch. I don’t think it was too serious. Finished off with snatch pull, 110kg for two sets of five, then power snatch at 75kg and 80kg for a set of five to finish. I was pretty tired.

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.

View All Articles

woman lifting barbell

Be the smartest person in your gym

The Breaking Muscle newsletter is everything you need to know about strength in a 3 minute read.

I WANT IN!

Breaking Muscle is the fitness world’s preeminent destination for timely, high-quality information on exercise, fitness, health, and nutrition. Our audience encompasses the entire spectrum of the fitness community: consumers, aficionados, fitness professionals, and business owners. We seek to inform, educate and advocate for this community.

Follow Us