[Uncle Arctic]

NEVAH!!!!! 😀

You're just lucky my requests for white July 4th's have been unheeded.

[Uncle Arctic]

Hey I'm all for equality (being an equal opportunity curmudgeon: meaning I'm an ass to most everyone I meet :D) And while personally I have no problem with how kids are made (grow em in a test tube bye bye morning sickness!) socially I see what the alarmists are saying about the slippery slope on this one.

And I've been happily married for almost 10 years now: the fact that men aren't needed is very old news to me.  😀

[Uncle Arctic]

For a six figure salary they can call me Nancy for all I care 😛

[Uncle Arctic]

My favorite is Redneck Zombies. Hands down.

Awwwwwwwwwwwww no love for Cannibal: The Musical? 😀

Getting in on this a little late but what the hell right?

33 yr old guy based in Colorado waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay up in the Rocky Mountain range

I am Norwegian in decent and look pretty much like a throwback to the Norse raider days (In fact I play the part for most of the summer in various Rennisance Faires around the US)

I am wrestler on the independant circuit as well as a student going for something with a little more of a future before my body gives out on me 😀  (A dual AA in Fire Science and Emergency Medical Tech)

My hobbies include: drawing, weightlifting, some writing (nothing like required school papers to suck the joy out of that), computer games and spending time with my family.

My guilty loves include bad movies, Terry Pratchet books, and the before mentioned computer games.

Some unknown things about me?  Well at this point that's pretty much everything I just said seeing as I've been sort of lurking these past few months but for the record:
I just tried out for the show American Gladiators and while I aced the physical tests it was suggested that I was just not camera friendly enough to be a contestant.  I was put on the call back list to be a Gladiator though XD
And I am an enthusistic sword collector, which comes easy seeing as where I spend most of my summers.

[Uncle Arctic]

Very awesome work!  The one thing I would say about it in critism is that she seemed to have become blinged in the last picture.  (Gold band ring on flexing arm's ring finger)  I know, I have too much time on my hands 😀

[Uncle Arctic]

Heh, I think her flying days are over but still I think she will find the strength (somehow) to go on!

Awesome work Atari!  Glad to see you you here man.

[Uncle Arctic]

I'm sorry for the burden you're shouldering right now Necro and I wish you a speedy jog down the path of recovery. 

As for the health care in America, don't even get me started: I tend to foam at the mouth. 😀

[Uncle Arctic]

I'm not a huge fitness person myself, but at the gym near me people have been criticized for working too much on the abs.

That might be because trainers and whatnot are under the false impression that you either have abs or you don't (which is totally false, everyone has abs :D)  They want you to get fast results which usually means the big groups like arms, legs and whatnot, which translates to more contracts for the trainers. 

In my experience, it has to do with your individual anatomy, some people has a six pack with out doing much of anything.  Other folks (like yours true) do alot of work on their bellies and have very strong cores but not the fabled pack.  Of course there are surgeries I'm sure but I'm guessing you are looking for something a little more healthy?

[Uncle Arctic]

Yeah Dorf, to re-iterate: steroids bad.  In fact I'll go one better and say to avoid most any suppliment (other than your average multi-vitamin and plain-jane protein shakes) for your first year of training.  The reason I say this is because you don't yet have a barometer for your well being. 
By which I mean, you are going to be (hopefully) changing your eating lifestyle, working out regularly (and let me say from one husband to another, you are going to love to watch her get fit.  That first time she bends over get a weight and you see hamstrings?  Heh, just remember, gyms take a dim view on PDA on the floor :D)  Anyways, my point is you are going to be stressing your body pretty hard already and it is going to retaliate in the predictable manner, you don't need say the bloat of creatine loading to add insult to injury right away.
A couple of books that were great sources of information for me and my wife when we first started were The Complete Idiot's Guide to Weightlifting which breaks down workouts, diet, and rest into the easiest to understand form.  And for a little later down the road (and please no one flame me for this one) but I found Arnold's Encyclopedia of Bodybuilding to be indespensable.  Once you get around him talking about himself, he's got quite a few gems of training knowledge that deserves to be brought back to date.

[Uncle Arctic]

Bad as the side-effects have been for Joanna, Supersize She has nothing to compare to the other TLC documentary that they reran this wk, The Man Whose Arms Exploded w/ Gregg Valentino.  For pure grossed outedness, he's a poster child for why playing around with enhancement drugs is no good for male or female bodybuilders.

Valentino got what he deserved for being dumb enough to be shooting that crap into himself.  Hear about the kid that died right before/after that?  Idolized Gregg and when he heard about the synthoil injections, did what naughty little fanboys do.  Only he used Synthol, a car lube oil and died shortly afterward.  Ok threadjack over, back to the topic at hand.

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