Well that makes more sense. Maybe not actually a bicep injury at all. The fact that you can do OHP's but not bench makes me think it's more something refered from the shoulder....not that I know. I any case you should follow your instincts and not do anything that causes a lot of pain while you rehabilitate it.

Can you do deadlifts?

Overhead pressing 3 days on a 5x5 is too much. There is also the question of balance. That's probably THE most important aspect of any routine, imo. Looking at the kind of huge strength gains I've gotten of 5x5's you're rowing strength could increase to the point where you have a serious and dangerous imbalance that could lead to shoulder injury, etc. Overuse and imbalances are the two major causes of injury. Not just "too much weight" like most people always think (not that this doesn't happen a lot).

That means that doing a 5x5 with rowing movements and no chest pressing movements is ill advised. Since you want to overhead press you'd be better off doing pullups/downs.

You may want to think about postponing this until you're better so that you can get the most out of it. Maybe you could do something in an upper/lower split in a balanced routine. You could still utilize 5x5's in there.

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If you act sanctimonious I will just list out your logical fallacies until you get pissed off and spew blasphemous remarks.