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Working Through My Limitations (Athlete Journal 32)

This week was all about knowing my limitations and working around them so I could continue with my training.

Terry Hadlow

Written by Last updated on Oct 25, 2022

Saturday

Saturday’s workout was clean and jerks. I started with:

  • Speed clean and jerk: 50kg x 5 reps
  • Speed cleans 1 jerk: 2 sets
  • 4 speed cleans and a jerk: 75kg
  • 4 speed cleans and a jerk: 95kg
  • 4 speed cleans and a jerk: 105kg – My right elbow was too tender to finish the other three sets. witch to power clean from the floor with front squat and jerk. Drop down to
  • Power clean from the floor with front squat and jerk: 75 kg for 1
  • Power cleans with 3 front squats and a jerk: 75kg for 1

I repeated that sequence with 95kg, 110kg, and 120kg.

  • 1 clean, 1 front squat, and a jerk: 125 kg
  • Clean pulls: 150kg for 1 set of 3
  • 150kg for 1 set of 3 slow pulls.

Monday

Monday was back squat day. I was thanking the Lord it was also a rest day! My legs were fried and 100kg for four sets of six was about all I could take.

Tuesday

Tuesday was upper body day, and everything felt much better. I decided I wasn’t going to push it too hard. I did 165lbs for four sets of six in the inclines, doing the descending strip down from six reps to twelve reps and ending at 85lbs.

Wednesday

Nothing at all on Wednesday.

Thursday

Thursday was snatch day. I did work with 40kg and 50kg for the speed and power snatch. My left wrist was very sore and I was hardly able to keep anything overhead. I switched to front squats, hoping to stretch out my wrist.

  • Front squat: 180lbs for a set of 6
  • 250lbs for a set of 6

I finished off at 180lbs, with ten reps of speed squats. Back to the snatch work. Again I worked through some speeds, power, and full squat snatches with 40kg and 50kg, but decided to pack it in for the day because my wrist was still way too sore.

Friday

On Friday one of the boys was having a birthday, so it was only 51 minutes today rather than the sixty minutes we were supposed to do. It went well, although I appreciated not having to do those extra nine 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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