Author Archives: Nick Massa

New Website!!

While I do hope to eventually add more to this blog, for now I’m going to focus all my efforts on my new site, http://www.nickxmassa.com. It’s going to have a lot more information about nutrition and fitness, as well as … Continue reading

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Top 5 Reasons For and Against GMOs

If you’ve been even remotely paying attention over the last couple years, you’ve at least heard the term GMO thrown around. GMOs – genetically modified organisms – are largely an extension of Gregor Mendel’s experiments with hybridization and genetics (in … Continue reading

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Are You Fat Enough?? Part 1 of 2

If there’s one thing I hate about nutrition more than anything else, it’s that the word “fat” refers to both an essential nutrient and the fact that a person is overweight. First of all, it makes no sense – you … Continue reading

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Guest Blog – How to Eat Healthy at a Restaurant

Everyone check out my guest blog on What Are My Kids Eating! http://graysonandharper.blogspot.com/2011/02/guest-blogger-how-to-eat-healthy-in.html It’s a post I’ve been meaning to write for a long time about how to decode menus and eat healthily at restaurants.

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How to Bulk Up (on a Budget)

Any professional trainer will tell you: bulking up is 10% exercise and 90% nutrition (or some other made up statistic). The main thing to remember is that if you want to get big, you need to eat A LOT. Your … Continue reading

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Small Sacrifices, Big Results

Want to manage your weight but not ready for a hardcore workout? Try these little lifestyle changes which over time can lead to big results Continue reading

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MovNat: The Ultimate No-Gym Workout

Say what you will about the French, but one thing is certain: they know how to take fitness to the next level. Look at David Belle. Zinedine Zidane. Or Georges Hebert – a French naval officer in the Caribbean in … Continue reading

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Explosives are the new cardio

Want a fat-melting workout that you can do in your bedroom? Check out these explosive moves you can do whenever, wherever you want.*

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Level Up! + 2STR +1END +1CON

Nervous about starting a routine? You just need more experience points. Studies have shown that the reason games like World of Warcraft are so popular is because they operate on a deeply psychological effort-reward system. The more you play, the … Continue reading

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HIIT – the next level of cardio training

Jogging around your neighborhood is a great way to keep fit and build up cardio endurance. It’s also a great exercise for beginners, since it’s easy to see improvements in endurance really quickly. The problem with jogging is that fat … Continue reading

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