Pictured above is an outdoor pull up bar...

Yes it's about 3M high and it's snowing outside, but regardless today is my day for pull-ups. Because of my level I do my pull-up routine with the assistance of my legs so I get to stand on that lovely, wobbly, wooden contraption. As I have said before my exercises are challenging, but presented with tis as my only option to give my body what it needs it requires extra mental drive. I will add that the longest time I have spent in the relative cold in the past eight years was 3 weeks this Christmas on Vancouver Island where the temperature is about 3 C.

Since the World Championships in the Bahamas I have been calling myself a lazy, fat freedivier. I know it's is bad mental talk, but this was brought on by the constant flow of Cheesecake that I was shoving into my mouth. I had my reasons, I was worried about the competition, I was stressed out by my job at the time and Rowdy Boys cheesecake is one of the best I have ever tasted, hmmm guava topping, incredible.

At the time I knew I was over doing the cheesecake, but having a whole on in my fridge I was eating about 2 pieces per day. A friend says "A little of what you fancy does you good" so I was telling myself this too much. On my return to Los Angeles, I went to the Cheesecake factory where they list the calorie content of each piece. There was nothing lower then 900 calories and up to 1700 calories. Wow at that moment I truly realized just how much I was over eating.

Anyway I am slowing working all of the cheesecake off, between the pool training and my dry exercises I am beginning to see the definition in my stomach again. So positive affirmations, hard exercises and choosing not to eat candy every day, I am well on my way to feeling comfortable doing deep no fins dives again.