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When Typing Interferes With Training (Athlete Journal 25)

The week ended with a bit of pain in my elbow and wrist, but otherwise it was a solid training week.

Terry Hadlow

Written by Terry Hadlow Last updated on April 28, 2014

The week ended with a bit of pain in my elbow and wrist, which kept me from doing my planned snatch workout, but otherwise it was a solid training week.

Monday

It was Monday, and my legs needed a rest. I decided to do an upper body circuit.

  • 130lbs x 6 reps for behind neck press
  • 155lbs x 6 reps for incline press
  • 120 lbs x 10 reps for wide pull downs
  • 35lbs x 10 reps for curls

The weights were used for my last four sets of the six set circuit. My wrist and elbow took a little time but warmed up nicely.

Tuesday

Tuesday was a day off, mainly because of the crazy schedule both at Jonathan Toews Community Centre and the university. With the split shifts, I spend as much time commuting as I do in the two gyms.

Wednesday

Today was a day to see how my elbow and wrist were responding to the therapy. So to challenge the two appendages, I decided to do combination snatch work. My warm up as methodical and little discomfort manifested itself, so I was cautiously optimistic.

My first five sets were made up of five reps, which includeed a pull, power snatch, speed snatch, power snatch from the hang, and a full snatch. I did two sets with 50kg and 70kg and one set with 80kg. I made a 10kg jump to 90kg and did four sets of four reps, eliminating the speed snatch. I made a final 10kg jump to 100kg and did one set of two reps, a pull, and full snatch. The wrist and elbow were feeling okay, but the 100kg tested them. One observation, I’ve noticed is the decrease in my pull power for the snatch. I haven’t done any back squats in a while, and I wonder if there is a correlation between the two.

Thursday

Thursday was clean and jerk, with front squats thrown in for good measure. Each set was a power clean with four front squats and a jerk. My wrist and elbow were a little stiff, but it was tolerable. My knees and groin were virtually pain-free. I started at 50kg for two sets and made 20kg jumps up to 110kg to do four sets there. By putting the jerk at the end and executing the reps efficiently, I could feel my confidence growing in being able to secure a successful lift at the more strenuous weights.

Friday

Today was long circuit fitness, and with a competition just around the corner I cut back to rest week work. Until the competition is over I’ll stick to the strategy of forty minutes every second station.

Sunday

I woke up on Sunday and my wrist and elbow were on fire. Unfortunately, the discomfort coincided with the typing for this article. I have to investigate how to fix this. With the level of discomfort peaking, I knew that the planned snatch workout is out of the question. So clean and jerk it was.

I started with speed cleans for 6 reps, starting with two sets with 50kg. I made a 20kg jump to 70kg for six reps, then made 10kg jumps from there, all the way up to 100kg for two sets of six reps. I switched to clean and jerk, starting with 70kg and I did a double. I repeated that with 90kg and just did singles with 100kg, 110kg and 120kg. I finished this part of the workout with a very solid 125kg. I did clean pulls with 145kg for two sets of four reps, with the fourth rep of the second set a ten-second slow pull.

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.

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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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