How quickly my body betrayed me

[santiago0221]

Excuse the dramatic title, but that's exactly how I feel after getting back into the gym today. Two Friday's ago, somehow I injured my neck/trap area. I was playing with my son, didn't feel anything strain, pop, or pull, but when I went to stand straight up, I couldn't. Felt a piercing pain from my neck down to my lower trap area. Was essentially bed ridden over the weekend until I could get into the chiro. Got some pops and whatnot out of that, but the pain was still there. Chiro thought she found what was wrong, and it would take a few days for my muscles to adjust and get back into shape.

Well, did hot/cold therapy for a good 3 days before I started feeling relief. My neck gradually felt better everyday, and today I felt like I could get back into the gym finally.

I was pumped and ready to go...until I started lifting. Man, after being out of the gym for only two weeks, I felt like I hadn't lifted in years. I was gassed, everything was super heavy, and I ended up cutting my workout short so I didn't re-aggravate anything.

What's worse, is over the course of these two weeks, I ended up losing about 4-5lbs, despite me being sedentary, and my diet not being super hot(though not terrible). But I can't even enjoy this weight loss, because I feel like it was probably LBM that I lost and not fat. Weighed in this morning at 227, the lowest I've been in probably over a decade. But rather than being excited, I feel like it's done more harm than good to my body.

So, is it normal for a person to feel like they haven't lifted in their life after being out of the gym for only two weeks? And could I have lost almost 5lbs of muscle in that course of time as well?

Anyway, I'm back on the horse at least, and will continue my body transformation campaign that I started in July. Just sort of demoralizing feeling a lot of my effort go down the drain after such a short amount of time.