Chicken, pumpkin and chickpea curry

Yep, I ended up having 3 days in a row of no exercise.  It was just too busy with appointments and the bub and I was getting stressed about how I was going to find time to fit it all in.  So I told myself it was ok to just let it go for a couple of days, as long as a couple of days didn’t end up stretching out to the entire week!  I stuck to the food plan and started up the exercise again today.  Since there are only 3 exercise days left this week, I decided to make today a cardio day, then back on the program tomorrow with core and the Super Session on Saturday is toning, so at least I still get a bit of everything this week.

I have to say, I am really enjoying the cardio.  I thought I would prefer the toning days as in the past I have really liked those type of exercises and found cardio exercise really boring.  Generally unless I am actually doing something – bushwalk, playing a game, etc, I don’t see the point to cardio.  Especially gym machines – treadmill, cross-trainer, bike – sooooo boring.  Rowing machine I didn’t mind so much.  But a few months before I found out I was pregnant (about this time last year) I had started jogging on a treadmill at home.  I was starting to really enjoy it as I could see improvements every single time I used it!  I was either going further in the same time, jogging faster, jogging for longer stretches, until after a few months I was able to jog for nearly 30 minutes straight!  Then I got pregnant, exhausted, body temperature rose and heart rate shot sky-high as soon as I attempted any exercise and it all stopped – until now.  I’m back on the treadmill again for the cardio days and stepping up the pace and the intervals a bit faster than the program dictates.  And I’m feeling great!

What do you enjoy most - do you like the cardio? toning? or the core workout?