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Yeah I've been reticent to do hook grip stuff for a while but I'll just have to bite the bullett.

Agree to a certain point on the push pull balance. That's part of the reason I'm doing wide grip pulls and I certainly feel it in the upper back. Also doing chins but I will try to add some band pull aparts and/or batwings in for further balance.

12/11/14
Even Easier Strength
Day 10

Warm Up

Wide Grip RDL
60 x 5
80 x 3
Deadlift
100 x 1
120 x 1
130 x 1
140 x 1
150 x 1
160 x 1

Incline Press
bar x 5
40 x 5
55 x 1
60 x 1
65 x 1
70 x 1
75 x 1
77.5 x 1 

Front Squat
60 x 5
70 x 1
80 x 1
90 x 1
100 x 1
110 x 1 
115 x 1 

Grip was an issue from 150 on DL. Went conventional for that set and the bar slipped to my fingers almost immediately. Still made the lift but went alternate for 160. Much stronger. I really do think I will need to use/learn hook grip sometime soon.

13/11/14
Even Easier Strength
Day 11

Wide Grip RDL
60 x 10

Incline Bench
40 x 10
50 x 10

Front Squat
60 x 10

Bar Chins
bw x 6

14/11/14
Even Easier Strength
Day 12

Rest- Had a corporate golf day so at least had some active recovery walking the course.
 

Mate that's fucked up. Hopefully gets sorted out for you as soon as possible.

08/11/2014
Even Easier Strength
Day 6

Wide Grip RDL
bar x 5
60 x 5
80 x 5
80 x 5

Incline Bench (fat gripz)
bar x 5
40 x 5
55 x 5
55 x 5

Front Squat
bar x 5
60 x 5
70 x 5
70 x 5

Ring Chins (dead hang)
bw x 5
bw x 5

Farmers Walks
20kg each hand x 50m x 2

05/11/2014
Even Easier Strength
Day 3- Rest

06/11/2014
Even Easier Strength (Restart)
Day 4

Wide Grip RDL
bar x 5
60 x 5
Deadlift
100 x 5
120 x 3
130 x 2

Incline Bench (fat gripz)
bar x 5
40 x 5
55 x 5
60 x 3
65 x 2

Front Squat
bar x 5
60 x 5
70 x 5
80 x 3
90 x 2

Ring Chins
bw x 5
+5 x 3
+7.5 x 2

03/11/14
Even Easier Strength (Restart)
Day 1

RDL
bar x 5
60 x 5
80 x 5
80 x 5

Incline Bench (fat gripz)
bar x 5
40 x 5
50 x 5
50 x 5

Front Squat
bar x 5
60 x 5
70 x 5
70 x 5

Ring Chins (dead hang)
bw x 5
bw x 5

Back felt ok. Not willing to stress it with ab wheel rollouts.

Day 5- Even Easier Strength
31/10/2014

I fear my love affair with morning training may already be over. Have had some serious hip and glute tightness over the last couple of days which has led into some serious lower back pain. I used to get debilitating lower back pain 5+ years ago and haven't really had any since I've been weight training properly. At the moment I'm putting it down to training so early without time for my body to warm up and that I'm deadlifting in that state.

Like I did with the basketball thing I'm going to move on pretty quickly. I don't have the time to waste waiting for my body to adapt to early morning training if it's going to put me into this state. I've also done a little reading on training in the morning and all the recommendations are against training early without some decent time between rolling out of bed and lifting your first weight. For me that would mean getting out of bed pre-5am which just isn't going to happen.

I may just go back to the B3W program I was doing before and hit it again. I got some good results from it last time. I'll take my time and work up again. Probably my biggest mistake last time was the planned peak. Didn't plan well enough to peak, deload and start again which led to some serious downtime. Either way that's probably where I'll start and get to doing some more sprinting/jumping work again.
Fun times.

Day 3- Even Easier Strength
29/10/14

Warm Up-
Goblet squats and swings

Wide Grip RDL-
60 x 5
60 x 5
Deadlift-
100 x 5
110 x 3
120 x 2

Incline Bench (fat gripz)-
bar x 5
40 x 5
50 x 5
55 x 3
60 x 2

Front Squat-
60 x 5
70 x 5
80 x 3
90 x 2

Ring Chins-
bw x 5
+2.5 x 3
+5 x 5

Ab wheel-
Did not do. Ab soreness way too much to be of any use.

50 mins

Still getting used to workout out so early. No doubt this will get better over the next few weeks. Thinking I may add a walk/jog around the block first to actually wake up/warm up prior to starting as it's only a 5 second trip from my house to the garage and my wife and kids don't take kindly to being woken at 5.30am.