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As a health, fitness and nutrition writer, I am often asked by editors to highlight a particular mode of exercise or food or diet in an article, picking it apart for pros, cons, the biological science behind it and the research that shows it works. That’s the nature of how-to health writing – the reader expects to learn something new upon which they can act.

The challenge is that proactive health is never achieved with one solution. In fact, the basis of physical and mental vitality is best summarized by three words: balance, variety and moderation.

I tried to take that approach with this article on cardiovascular modalities (treadmills, elliptical machines, stair climbers and stationary bikes). Each has its advantages, but to use just one to the exclusion of the others would be folly. This article for client HairLoss.com instead stresses the need to mix it up, to use each of them (in balance with other, non-machine exercise).

Every type of gym-based cardiovascular machine has its merits. This article written for Hairloss.com takes a look at the pros and cons of treadmills, ellipticals, stationary bikes and stair machines.  But there’s really no need to choose: the best fitness schedule would include each, and each used in different ways.