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Training With Elbow and Wrist Pain (Athlete Journal 31)

Pain and discomfort made my training difficult this week, but I managed to work around it.

Terry Hadlow

Written by Last updated on Oct 25, 2022

I’m finding that my wrist and elbow are a little tender even after a lengthy warm up, so I decided to skip the jerk portion of Sunday’s workout.

Sunday

Speed Clean:

  • 50kg x 2 sets of 6
  • 70kg x 2 sets of 6
  • 90kg x 2 sets of 6
  • 100kg x 2 sets of 6

Power clean from the hang

  • 90 kg x 1set of 6
  • 100 kg x 2 sets of 6

Power clean from the floor

  • 90kg x 1 set of 6
  • 100kg x 2 sets of 6

Clean pulls

  • 140kg x 2 sets of 5
  • 150kg x 1 set of 3
  • 150kg x 1 set of 2 and 1 slow pull

Monday

Back squat 130kg x 4 sets of 6

Speed squat 100kg x 2 sets of 10

Tuesday: Snatch Day

I was hoping my left wrist, although it felt a little tender, would be able to contend with the stress of today’s work.

Speed snatch

  • 50kg x 2 sets of 6
  • 65kg x 1 set of 5
  • 75kg x 2 sets of 5

I had to shut down this exercise because my left wrist was just too sore.

Power snatch from the hang

  • 60kg x 1 set of 5
  • 75kg x 1 set of 5
  • 80kg x 1 set of 5
  • 85kg x 1 set of 5

Power snatch from the floor

  • 85 kg for 2 sets of 5 – My wrist was a little sore, but not as bad as the speed snatch.

Snatch pull

  • 110kg x 2 sets of 5
  • 125kg x 1 set of 3
  • 125kg x 1 set of 3 slow pulls

My right elbow gradually increased in discomfort, and my triceps were just too tight. My elbow and wrist were too sore, so I decided to leave out my usual Wednesday upper body workout. My legs were also too tired to squat again this week.

Thursday: Front Squats

After a long, tedious warm up, I was finally able to hold the bar in the catch position. I finished with 120kg for a set of five and three reps, along with one stop squat. It went pretty well, considering. I finished off with speed squats at 90kg for two sets of ten.

Fridays: Circuit Day

The long circuit was 50 minutes at 35 seconds on, 25 seconds off. Still hard, but better than last week’s effort.

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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