Is this pain typical and how long before I recover?

[Hojima]

Hey, it's been almost 9 months since I've weight trained, and I noticed a huge difference in my figure. I've been running, but I still lost muscle and gained fat, so decided to come back and do weight loss lifts. Anyways, just yesterday I did a what would have been an easy workout, and typically felt like crap. But after a little bit of time, my tendons really started to ache. Now I don't even have the full range of motion in my arms that I had right before the workout. I can't even scratch my shoulders, and my arms will curl up like I'm flexing my bicep when I'm just letting them hang. It's like the connective tissue in my arm just up and freaked out. Is this typical? Do I need time or medication for this, and if so what and how much? Also, I know that many people's body vary, but what is the typical amount of time it takes to recover what you have loss (just use any worst case scenario over the course of nine months of letting yourself go)?

[I. Kay]

Sounds to me like you just overdid it, though you may have hurt yourself. Why do you say it is your tendons aching?

If you've lost range of motion and put on extra weight, then you may simply have asked your body to do more than it can right now. Have you looked into mobility work? How about foam rolling? Also, what kind of workouts are we talking about here?

[Mon]

If you have not worked out in a while, its normal to be sore and ache the next day. It will only last about 2-3 days and thats it. Unless its pain and it hurts to move, don't worry about it. It's only lactic acid. I started a workout format someone on here gave me on Tuesday and I was sore the next day in the areas of the muscles that the exercises I did worked. I have not worked out in a while before the Tuesday workout. I workout 3 days a week, so I was ready for Thursdays workout and had no problem doing it.

[Hojima]

I've lost the range of motion over the course of the workout. I say my tendons hurt because when I try to scratch my shoulders, it fells like I'm doing a stretching exercise, though my coach told me to stretch until you feel it, not until it hurts, but it feels like I'm overdoing it when I do something as simple as extending my hand (so it's basically pain when I move). Also, does anyone have experience with not working out for a while then recovering. How long does it take to kick back to where you were?