Walking and Your Heart Rate
September 27, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Although I discuss appearance in-depth in the first book (The Foundation), I don’t harangue escorts on dieting or working out. Being healthy and presenting a polished appearance is far more important to your happiness and attracting good clients.
But for those who may want a simple idea for working out, here are a few tips.
You probably already know the state of your health and body. A realistic assessment with a mirror and a flight of stairs will tell you if you’re in good condition, need to lose weight or improve your aerobic function.
If you decide you want to shed some weight or improve your aerobic capacity, then more physical activity is a must. A simple way to do this is by walking. It works for European women. It will work for you too.
But if your life doesn’t allow you to spend all day walking from place to place, you’ll need to hit the gym. For your activity to be effective, you must sustain your target heart rate for 30 minutes (or more), anywhere from 3-6 times a week. This means you’ll spend 10-15 minutes warming up and reaching your target heart rate, at least 30 minutes sustaining it, plus another 15 minutes or so to properly cool down and stretch. (I said walking was a simple way to exercise, not a fast way!)
Reaching your target heart rate is very important because that’s what really burns calories while strengthening your heart and lungs. Walking for 45 minutes a day won’t build a whole lot of muscle, although you will become toned. Lifting weights for 45 minutes a day will build lean muscle (most women don’t “bulk” up).
Finding your target heart rate is half the battle. Here’s a detailed article. It explains everything I’ve had a trainer explain to me. The math required to find your target heart rate is easy. The catch is that you have to remember your heart zones and keep monitoring your heart rate while working out.
This means you will need to periodically stop and take your pulse or you will have to buy a gadget. Heart-rate monitors can get expensive, but I found a monitor that straps on my wrist (like a watch) and tells me my heart rate at the push of a button. It cost about $40 from Target.
The second half of the battle is finding the time to work out! It’s not easy. I’ve been on good schedules, then life gets in the way and I lose my workout time. Going to the gym on a regular basis is boring (except for some classes). The way I look at it? It’s me time! I can totally zone out or I can think about problems. Whichever. My body is getting healthier and I get a time-out from the day.
If you’re new to working out, then a program of walking probably won’t get you in shape to be a swimwear model. But it will have very good, and visible, effects on your body with just a few weeks of dedication.
Being active makes the body happy, naturally. It’s what we’re meant to do. And feeling better about yourself is a great, indulgent reason to work out.
What The Handbook is Not
September 22, 2006 | Leave a Comment
If you’ve Googled any phrases like “become an escort” or “learn to be an escort” or something along these lines, then you’ve probably come across a couple of pricey e-books aimed at beginning female escorts.
There are several books about being a male escort, both gay and straight. I won’t make comments since that’s not my area of expertise. But I do know that men who want to become escorts in the hopes of having lots of sex with women may not want to quit their day jobs.
I want to talk about what my series is not, especially since you won’t come across this Web site in the paid-inclusion section of Google results.
One of the e-books aimed at educating escorts is written mostly with the view that the reader will want to work with an agency. There’s nothing wrong with that, but a reader who wants to know about becoming an independent escort won’t be able to learn everything she needs to know about running her own business. And, in my opinion, the table of contents gave short shrift to the personal aspects of the business that the escort will encounter.
Personally, I like to know everything I can about running my own business that way I can chose what I want to outsource and what I want to do myself. Having choices gives me power and control. But hey, that’s just how I like to do things.
The other ebook you’re likely to run across talks about earning lots of money with what the author claims to be legal escorting. The author sells separate e-books on being an escort, starting an escort agency and becoming a driver for escorts. Reading through the website will enlighten you.
She promises to reveal how an escort can make $1000 with 10 minutes worth of talk-time. This is all the time necessary to spend with the client and no clothes have to come off (this is what makes it legal, in her opinion). She advises agency-owner wannabes to charge the credit cards of clients before the escort arrives at the door. And I can only assume that the driver in question is there to back up the escort during that oh-so-special 10 minutes she spends with the (probably terrified and/or angry) client.
This woman is selling a system of extortion. There’s nothing else it can be. (She has an article aimed at agency owners and cautions them that if a guy actually calls back to request a certain girl that they’re probably having sex, otherwise he’d never call back.) The fact that she’s so blatantly selling a how-to for wannabe scam-artists makes me wonder if I’d get anything for my money if I ordered one of her books.
My Internet Escort’s Handbook series is not any of the above. I take the business seriously and write about the issues an escort will face with her business. I don’t feel I’m promoting ‘illegal’ escort practices. I discuss how a woman can sell her time coupled with her personality. What happens between consenting adults in their own private space is no one’s business.
I firmly believe that one can run an honest, ethical business and be successful.
If the idea of being an honest, independent escort intrigues you, then click on the big link at the top of the page (“The Book”) to take a look through my first book in the series.
Book Release and Pre-sale!
September 21, 2006 | Leave a Comment
The Internet Escort’s Handbook Book 1: The Foundation will be officially released October 16, 2006!
This doesn’t mean much since I’m not having a release party or anything like that. This is more or less a birth announcement. It’s taken longer than making a baby!
But you can reserve your copy today. If you order through our fulfillment center your credit card won’t be charged until the book is shipped.
The books are being printed as we speak and will be completed the first week of October. If you order now you’ll probably get your book in the mail before they’re officially on sale!
