West Bromwich Albion striker Victor Anichebe admits he paid his own way to a performance camp in LA over the summer.
Anichebe is desperate to reach his potential with the Baggies.
"I've had enough injuries that I know how to manage my body now," he told the Daily Express. "When I was with my former club, Everton, we went out to the performance camp in Los Angeles and then one of their guys came over to us every season.
"I'm familiar with them and it's getting away from an environment here, where I've been physically injured and mentally a bit down, to come back refreshed.
"It wasn't a holiday, I was training twice a day and West Brom were keeping tabs on me with a heart rate monitor.
"I paid for the trip myself. It's myself managing myself. To pay for something like that, it's a small price in the grand scheme of things if it can help me to feel better.
"When you are going out to play and you don't feel great, it brings you down. People just think you are injured and then you are fit. It's not like that.
"You are waking up and you are thinking 'oh, I've got a pain here' it gets you down. I am very honest with people about it. To get yourself right mentally is important."
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