As the summer heat is finally here, we get a lot of questions on how you can achieve a beach-ready body at home.  Here are some of our favorite abdominal/core exercises arranged in a 10 minute killer ab workout.  CLICK HERE to view photos and descriptions of the exercises.  A special thanks to Ken Phu our superstar trainer who taught us to do all these exercises properly!

Team Mizara is very, very fortunate to have the support of the BVL in our journey towards 2012.  We run both our Volleyocity Beach Volleyball Club and Camp on the BVL Beach Volleyball Courts at Chinguacousy Park in Brampton.  The success of our fundraising and, more importantly, our ability to give back to the beach volleyball youth community is made possible because of the BVL.  We’d especially like to thank Bud and Indru who constantly find ways to support our team and our Volleyocity events.

If you are looking for an indoor or beach volleyball league for all ages and levels, and if you live in the Peel Region, we highly recommend the outstanding facilities, organization and quality play that the BVL offers.  For more information about the BVL, please visit www.bramptonvolleyball.com.

Our head Coach, Cam Green, has been in town since July 13th, kicking our butts in preparation for our European Tour.  He traveled Poland with us, and then we parted ways as we traveled to Cyprus and Cam returned to California.  Our time with Cam really kicked our game into high gear.  The more we train with him, the more we realize how it is essential for us to train with him and to have him travel with us as much as possible over the next 4 years.  We need the outside feedback, the motivation, the leadership, the exceptional technical and tactical knowledge and the laughter that he provides our Team.

Cam will be back to Toronto at the end of August to prep us for National Gold. We will be picking up our sponsorship and fundraising ventures into next season so that we can afford to bring Cam with us full-time next season, as we need his constant tutelage to speed up our learning curve as we move towards Olympic 2012 Gold.   If you have any suggestions on how to raise funds to hire Cam full-time, please let us know.

Liz and I are proud to announce our new sponsorship with Overkill Clothing.  For all of you in the volleyball community, Overkill is definitely a household name.  With outstanding designs and ahead-of-the-curve quality clothing, Overkill has always been our favorite training and casual clothing supplier.  So we're super stoked that we get to wear Overkill all of the time!  Check out their website at www.overkill.ca, where you too can purchase a wide variety of awesome clothing.

Liz gives a thumbs up to Overkill Clothing

Poland was the most amazing learning experience we could imagine.  After an awesome first class flight to England, we spent the day in London making sure to visit the 2012 Olympic site (visualizing ourselves playing in the Gold Medal match, of course!).  It was one of the most moving experience's of my life, one that we will repeat as often as possible en route to 2012.

Visualizing Olympic Gold at the 2012 Olympic Site in London.