Recent Posts by NN

Excellent words Shellie and Sean!  Funda, you must simply follow your passions.  The whole point of life is to have Fun!!!  Live Healthy - Be Happy!!!  :)

Does anyone want to join me in a challenge to see who can put on the most  lean upper body mass safely in the shortest amount of time.  Nancy Nicholson is ready to pack on some serious undeniable muscle.   PS Kristin - here's a picture of Ms. Holmes, standing behind me on the right (with the beautiful slender soft legs).

Dan - I'm glad you are enjoy my double-bicep avatar.  I certainly enjoyed your extended abdominal photo that you were kind enough to link to us.  It's a cuddly squishable version of you - just more Dan to love! 

I most enjoyed your and Ashley's company in KC.  You are both such amazing young people whom will surely succeed in whatever direction you take in life. 

Now please try to redirect your life route from the cookie jar.  I am worried the trans-fats are having a field-day with your digestive system, scary chemicals and colorings are eating away at your best judgment and you are falling into the addition of Junk Food's harsh additives.  CLEAN UP YOUR ACT DAN and at least feast on healthy organic food bars, natural cereals, vanilla soymilk..................yummy yummy yummy yummy yummy yummy :)

I will stay at the lovely quaint historical New Yorker Hotel.  I will try to get in on Wednesday so I am not feeling rushed and stressed.

So I don't have to deal with all the search and security issues at the airport, not to mention looking like a pack mule in New York, I plan to prepare a box food as well as tanning products, tarps and rags that I will simply Fed Ex to the Hotel.

I'll  keep you apprised as my plans solidify.

Hi Sean - excellent most impressive avatar.  You are now my inspiration!  I will study your every muscle fiber placement, perfect my posing and take it to the Worlds!  Thanks for everything in KC.  You are clearly awesome inside and out!

New Yorker is the host hotel and has tiny rooms and bathrooms.  Pack lightly!

Hi Team K - I live in Kansas City - Sorry, the airport is a far 30 minutes away in middle of nowhere exciting- with no easy access to transportation (subway, etc).   The host hotel is approximatly 10 minutes from the competition site, but usually the Rowlett's (the Show Promotors) have been excellent about arranging guest hotel shuttle buses from the hotel to the competition site.  The guest hotel may have a shuttle bus from the airport - many hotels do.  I'll try to check into these things this weekend and give you more defininte answers as soon as possible.  I'll also be competing so I'll be pretty darn focused but I'll also do what I can to help out.  If you let me know when your flights come in, I can keep track of them and between a few of us helpers such as the gracious Mary Bell, we can get you to the hotel.  Also, if you are feeling really thrifty and not in need of luxurious accommodations, I have some space for the most serious competitors :)  but check with Dr. Joe - he may need to keep an eye on your tightness, vascularity, and all the magical peak weak stuff and therefore need you under close scrutiny at all times.  (Shellie you are welcomed to stay at my place but if you do, you must ProTan my back) Feel free to E-mail me at lovnicholson2@excite.com (I know it sound's like a porn site, but it seemed like the obvious perfect name choice when I got married)  :)

NN Gymbag contains water bottle, towel, dry T-Shirt. 

Mary Ford:  I don't think it matters what gender, size or even what species I am, judging from your Avatar, you are a force to be reckoned with.  I am afraid to fight you - but you can jump in my gymbag and we can have an awesome workout!  :)

I'm waiting for Dr. Joe to tell me exactly what to do.  But until then, I am a firm believer in listening to my body.  I like supersets.  I like heavy weights.  I like the challenge of heavier weights.  I easily grow bored with high reps.  I like the feeling of pride after a tough workout.  I believe overall conditioning should be enjoyable.  I'm into the whole package -- the mind/body/spirit wellness.  If I find myself hating the gym, I would have to find a different venue for physical conditioning.  IN SUMMARY,  I love to seriously stimulate the muscle, but I will not work out "till I puke"   :0    because it's an obvious contradiction to my quest for overall physical wellness.  Correct me if I am wrong.

So TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION Mr. Sleeplifter, Of course, we can have productive workouts without being to devastated to enjoy other areas of our lives after the gym session - assuming you do more than work out :)   Again, Correct me if I am wrong.

I guess it's all the way you look at it.   At least your'e not spending your hard-earned funds on junk-food,  cigarrettes and gambling.  Seriously, Bodybuilding and an overall healthy active lifestyle can be quite affordable.

I pack my own lunch instead of paying $5.00 or more a day like colleagues.  I could easily live on chicken breasts and StarKist Tuna fillet packs and the packs of frozen veggies.  They are convenient, portable and affordable.  I simply choose my meals wisely -- by determining what is going to nourish my body and mind.  I don't take a lot a supplements, perhaps I should, but I  am pretty lazy and low maintenance  when it comes to that kind of stuff.   In the past, I have spent oodles of money on supplements but have not been convinced of the supplement's effectiveness or necessity.  Now  I stick to protein powder,  the basic amino acids and occasional glutamine.  I try to keep it simple.

I have a gym membership, but I get most  of my workouts at home from an  Olympic Style Wieght Set that I got a great deal on for $800.  I get a lot of my cardio vigorously mowing my yard,  gardening and other outdoor activities that I love to do.  Its an overall wellness for me.  A mind/body/spirit balance that I'm after.  

When I am preparing for a contest, I do commit more time to the actual Gym to develop a disciplined routine and  better monitor my progress with their many many mirrors.

LIVE HEALTHY - BE HAPPY!