March 11, 2026 • 16 mins
Dr. Greg Seier, assistant professor of Natural & Mathematical Sciences, and junior Macanna Guritz join Zach James to discuss Morningside’s growing exercise science program and how it’s creating new opportunities for students both on campus and in the field.
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This is Inside M-Side, your favorite podcast for all things Morningside.
(00:04):
Here's stories from students, alumni, faculty, and more about what makes the
Morningside experience so special.
Hello, and welcome in to its latest edition of the Inside M-Side podcast
here on the Morningside YouTube channel, or if you're listening along on your
favorite audio streaming platform, we welcome you in as well.
I'm your host Zach James, and coming up in this episode, we're going to talk
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about the thriving exercise science program that started in the fall of 2025.
Even though they're just starting, they're excited for some new projects
that are coming up and they've got a slew of students who are learning
big things in that program.
Here to help us talk about it is Dr.
Greg Stier, assistant professor of exercise science and Morningside
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junior McKenna Juris.
She's a student in the program and she's really excited to help
us talk about this as well.
Guys, thanks for joining us.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Let's, let's get this started with this.
Just tell me about the exercise science program from a 30,000 foot perspective
and what's been going on lately.
Um, so like I said, uh, August was the first time students could
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declare a major in exercise science.
Um, there's about five classes right now that kind of make up the
curriculum for more of the upperclassmen.
And we've been working on, um, curriculum for next fall for kind of the freshmen
or incoming freshmen class next year.
And then this current freshmen class to kind of help them decide, do they
want to go more strength and conditioning?
(01:31):
Do they want to do athletic training?
We have some physical therapy, um, chiropractic and some occupational
therapy students that are all interested in it.
So Greg, what separates this program from others in the field?
Well, it's brand new is one of them.
Yeah.
Um, so we have, we are brand new.
Um, the other big thing is we, um, have a great partnership with CNOS.
Um, I used to work with them, um, back in 2006 to 2010.
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And so Dr.
Meese, um, is very, um, active and wants this program to succeed.
So he's heavily invested and always asks us about it.
And he's opened up kind of his clinic to do some surgery rotations.
Um, some physical therapy, um, sites have agreed to let our students do some
internships and some shadowing with them.
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Um, and then we have also professional ranks that, um, we're going to hopefully
do some stuff with the Sioux city musketeers, Sioux city bandits, and the,
uh, explorers, um, to kind of see behind the scenes, what kind of
sports medicine do they have?
So some exciting opportunities for students to come in and see some
different settings ranging from elementary all the way to the professional ranks.
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And you just kind of answered my next question too.
How does this kind of help students prepare for career opportunities?
Um, the big thing is networking and relationship building.
Um, we want to put students in front of as many professionals as we can to kind
of see what they do, but then also network to possible graduate schools,
possible other internships, other possible other opportunities
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throughout the United States.
Um, and then we also do have a physical therapist from France, um, that a
student has kind of introduced me to.
So we're kind of working with them to see worldwide what we can do, either
internships within the clinics or even the Olympics.
And McKenna, just how fun is it to be a part of this exercise science
program with it being so new and what they're being so many opportunities
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to do classroom things, of course, but stuff outside of the classroom too.
It's been really fun to like, actually have like more hands on instead
of it just being more lecture.
Um, I think it allows like most of us are, um, people that want to go in an
active field of choice, like later on in life.
And so being able to have that hands on in the classroom, instead of just like
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it being lectures all the time, um, has helped a lot with just trying to get
more hands on experience, getting exposure, um, for like all the physical
therapy, athletic training opportunities as well.
So it's been really fun just to kind of be able to have all those opportunities
now that we've added this program.
What drew you to being an exercise science student and
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then what got you interested?
Um, my freshman year, I actually did, uh, like a job shadow with Katie here on
campus for athletic training and I really enjoyed it and I could really see myself
like more in like a hands on field instead of like just sitting in an office.
And so I really was looking forward to like majoring in biology just because
that was what we had at the time, my freshman year.
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Um, but then we, this last year there was talk about adding a new exercise
science program and I knew that was something that would be more geared
towards what I was interested in, athletic training, physical therapy type world.
Um, so when I saw that we were adding like kinesiology and like more classes
that are like dealing with, um, like hands on medical type stuff, I knew that
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was something that I really wanted to take advantage of and going into my junior
year, I knew it was, might've been a little bit of a stretch, like being
able to complete it fully.
But, um, Greg has been really good to work with and like trying to get all the
classes in before graduation next year.
Greg, what's it like seeing a student like McKenna and all the other
students dive headfirst the way that they have?
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It's been very impressive.
Um, last semester we had a motor development and an intro course and without
really any background in exercise science, um, the students did phenomenal
on two or three projects that were, um, I'd rate right up there with kind of
those in a traditional program where they've started as a first year student.
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Um, and so it's been very impressive, very encouraging, inspiring, um, to
kind of throw stuff at students and they come out on top and it's some of the
work they've done has just been so impressive.
Um, this semester we'll do some stuff with the Palmer Symposium.
Um, and so we're starting to roll with some research projects.
We're starting to get topics kind of set up and some, uh, all the IRB process,
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but I'm really looking forward to that to see what kind of posters they present.
Um, it's going to be very basic, um, six week projects.
Um, but I'm very interested to see how those turn out and what they look like
and what the students come up with.
Talk to me a little bit more about this Palmer Symposium and
you can both talk about it.
Well, what's, what's this semester looking like in terms of that?
Okay.
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Um, so the, um, assessments class fitness assessment, um, it's all about collecting
data, collecting assessments on fitness, um, topics.
So right now we're doing kind of cardio respiratory.
So how in shape are students, how in shape are, um, individuals.
Um, and so this is just a spinoff of a six week project where they'll do with a
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partner, um, we have groups of two, we have groups of three, um, and they
come up with the topic, they have to do a pretest, um, week one, they'll do the
same pre or same test as a post-test week six, and they do some type of
project, um, over the four weeks.
Um, so flexibility is kind of the first two that came up and so
we'll do a flexibility pretest.
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Then the students come up with a program within their sports, with their subjects,
and then they do a post-test and then they create a poster from their results.
Having like being able to like, talk about your research, like in Palmer is like a
great opportunity to get into grad school.
A lot of, um, people don't always do that.
So that's sometimes what grad, um, people would ask about, um, is how much research
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you've done and how exposed you are to like talking about your research.
And so being able to do that this year and probably next year as well is going
to help with getting into grad school.
And I think it would be really cool to kind of, I'm doing softball and baseball
and comparing the two and hamstring flexibility.
And so I think it would be really cool to kind of see a sport that I'm involved
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in and how, um, you can kind of make it better with, um, a program that I put
together and kind of basing it off of that.
As an athlete, how interesting is it to see the scientific side
of sports as a student athlete?
Yeah, it's been really cool.
Like I've been learning new things probably every single day.
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Like last year we talked a lot about like warming up and like stretching and type
stuff.
I think it's just something that I'll be able to take throughout these next two
years.
Um, and maybe being able to help like my teammates and stuff along the way with
this program, maybe there'll be able to implement that and maybe their everyday
lives to help with the hamstring flexibility as well.
And you just answered my next question, what, the things that you learn, do you
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go back and tell your teammates about, Hey, here's what I learned.
Here's how you can get better from this, from the research I've gained.
Yeah.
I'm hoping that I'll be able to, especially when I presented at Palmer, there's
going to be lots of athletes that will probably be involved in that type of
coming in and listening to different types of, um, projects that people have
done.
So I'm hoping that it can get spread throughout all the athletes here on
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campus, not just my teammates, but, um, I know a lot of different people in our
class are going to do a lots of different types of, um, flexibility.
And I think they're doing like importance of warming up and stuff like that.
And so hopefully when some athletes come in, they can gain all that knowledge and
be able to spread it across the whole campus.
Great.
I've noticed that when I go into the M club for coffee, some cookie, or when I
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film, like the get to know you videos on social media on the social media side,
by the way, go look at that on inside my things on the Facebook and Instagram
pages, if you would, I see a lot of equipment in there.
What's that like to use the M club room as a classroom and have that space for
interactive to be, to be more interactive.
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Um, athletics has been great.
Um, Jim Sykes is who I kind of went to, to propose the idea of, can we use this
temporarily kind of to just get us through the year space to go space to kind of
carve out, um, where we can put, um, this year we got an Erickson, um, motion
analysis system.
Um, so we can put sensors on athletes and we can test, or we can know, uh, we can
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monitor any motion that they do.
Um, so we did some running stuff last semester.
We did some dynamic warmups and dynamic skips, and hopefully this year in
biomechanics, we can expand on that.
Um, but it's nice in the M club room because we have a place to store it, but
then we also have a huge space that we can go out and do different things in, do
different things on.
Um, moving forward, uh, they're working on a kind of a dedicated lab space for
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exercise science.
Um, because we have more stuff coming in next year.
Um, we have some high speed treadmills, um, that are coming in.
They'll go 17 miles an hour.
Um, so we can do some speed stuff.
We can do some more testing stuff.
Um, we have specialized bikes that are coming in that we can do some more testing
with, um, with power and, uh, max VO twos.
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Um, we have a power platform, we have a biodex and we have underwater wing all
coming in next year that we can, um, start using.
And so this year we're kind of scratching the surface of kind of what we can do.
And then next year it'll kind of be a full blown.
Here's everything we got.
What do you think it'll be like when everything is full blown, full equipment?
What do you feel like how that's going to, what that's going to be like going into
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next year?
It'll be really cool.
It'll be a wow factor.
Um, kind of how you set their, how we're going to set the room up when you walk in.
Um, power platform is a lifting platform that'll have the Mustang head on it.
Um, we'll be able to do Olympic lifts on it.
We'll be able to do Olympic testing on it.
So not only will they be doing weightlifting stuff, but we can measure force.
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We can measure movement.
We can measure all different kinds of things.
Um, but that setup, um, it'll also have a squat rack.
It'll have a bench press.
That'll kind of be the centerpiece.
Um, and that's really impressive when you have it all set up.
And the first thing you see when you walk in the room, um, biodex, um, I would say
there might only be one other one in Sioux city, maybe.
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Um, and so we'll have one on campus and we've talked to CNOS already about doing
some testing for them.
Um, so it's ideally used for ACLs.
So students, athletes coming back from ACL tears, we can do a biodex test on them and
tell them kind of where they're at comparison side to side.
Um, so they're very interested in seeing that and wanting to be a part of that.
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And, um, yeah, it's going to be, it'll be really cool.
Well monitor set up and we'll have, we'll have a nice wow factor that when
you walk in this, it'll be impressive.
So with all the testing and all the equipment that might be coming in and the
equipment that you've been testing with already, do you feel like you've become a
better athlete and maybe even a smarter athlete with all the knowledge that you've
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gained so far this year?
I would definitely say I've gained like a lot of knowledge.
Um, typically athletes don't really like the warmups and stuff like that.
Like they just eat it, that it's like unnecessary, but after like, we've talked
about it, like there's so many more risks as energy or injuries when you don't do
these warmups.
Um, so now I kind of, I think I take the warmups more for granted, especially as I
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get older, going into my senior year, not as agile as I was my freshman year, I
would say.
And so I do think like just these classes itself has helped me like understand more
of like the basics that my coach might be honing in on me that I don't necessarily
understand, like right at the beginning, coming in freshman year.
Um, but being able to learn about that, I definitely do think that it's helped me
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like become a smarter athlete, um, when kind of talking about recovery and injury
and type of stuff.
You know, we're only six, seven months into this.
Um, but that is kind of the goal down the road is to not only educate the athletes,
but educate the coaches about recovery and, um, you know, do things smarter, do
things more efficiently.
Um, and there's some things we're going to be able to do produce data that kind of
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shows, Hey, you guys have had two really hard weeks and everybody's just beat.
You need to lighten up a little bit so we can recover.
And, um, then that'll all be coming down the road over the next semester, a couple
of semesters.
Could you re-answer that question, please?
Yeah.
Go ahead.
Um, I think that it has really helped me like gain knowledge as an athlete, for
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sure.
Um, we never used to think as athletes that warming up was that like important and
stuff.
And so being able to kind of just learn about the dynamics and how that can really
help with injury prevention.
Um, I really think that I've been able to take that into my sports and being able
just to understand, um, that to keep, keep up with, um, injury prevention and, um,
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flexibility and stuff, the warmup stuff is probably something that is probably
pretty important.
And so being able to understand why my coach really wants to kind of have those
stuff honed in and understanding the little things like that's probably one of
the little things that most athletes don't really tend to think about.
And so I think I, it's helped me kind of gain knowledge within my sport for sure.
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And to your point, Greg, you mentioned the coaches, how receptive have the coaches
been with this program?
Oh, very receptive.
Um, they all knew who they all know who I am.
And, um, yeah, I'm seeing lots of their athletes as prospective students.
Um, they're very supportive.
Um, baseball, I've talked to them a little bit about, um, getting a pitching
mound, doing some force plate stuff and a pitching mound.
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So cutting out, um, spots where the force plates could go.
Um, but yeah, they've all been super supportive.
They've been very flexible.
They've, um, reached out what they can do, what they can help me with.
Um, and then kind of on the flip side too, um, I've met with Cindy Welp a couple
times, so I'm in HR about doing some, uh, faculty staff kind of campus wide
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stuff, um, where we can kind of educate the whole campus on different wellness
activities, different things that we can do to kind of promote a healthy lifestyle.
For more on the exercise science program, go check out Morningside.edu.
Thanks for joining us guys.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Thank you so much.
Yep.
Thank you very much.
This was fun.
That'll do it for this edition of Inside M-Side.
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platform, and make sure to follow along throughout the rest of the semester,
as we'll have more episodes for you here in the spring.
For the university engagement staff and everyone else here at
Morningside University, I'm Zach James.
Thank you so much for watching and listening to this edition
of the Inside M-Side podcast.
We'll talk to you next time.
This is Inside M-Side, your favorite podcast for all things Morningside.
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Here's stories from students, alumni, faculty, and more about what makes the
Morningside experience so special.
Hello, and welcome in to its latest edition of the Inside M-Side podcast
here on the Morningside YouTube channel, or if you're listening along on your
favorite audio streaming platform, we welcome you in as well.
I'm your host Zach James, and coming up in this episode, we're going to talk
(00:27):
about the thriving exercise science program that started in the fall of 2025.
Even though they're just starting, they're excited for some new projects
that are coming up and they've got a slew of students who are learning
big things in that program.
Here to help us talk about it is Dr.
Greg Stier, assistant professor of exercise science and Morningside
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junior McKenna Juris.
She's a student in the program and she's really excited to help
us talk about this as well.
Guys, thanks for joining us.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Let's, let's get this started with this.
Just tell me about the exercise science program from a 30,000 foot perspective
and what's been going on lately.
Um, so like I said, uh, August was the first time students could
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declare a major in exercise science.
Um, there's about five classes right now that kind of make up the
curriculum for more of the upperclassmen.
And we've been working on, um, curriculum for next fall for kind of the freshmen
or incoming freshmen class next year.
And then this current freshmen class to kind of help them decide, do they
want to go more strength and conditioning?
(01:31):
Do they want to do athletic training?
We have some physical therapy, um, chiropractic and some occupational
therapy students that are all interested in it.
So Greg, what separates this program from others in the field?
Well, it's brand new is one of them.
Yeah.
Um, so we have, we are brand new.
Um, the other big thing is we, um, have a great partnership with CNOS.
Um, I used to work with them, um, back in 2006 to 2010.
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And so Dr.
Meese, um, is very, um, active and wants this program to succeed.
So he's heavily invested and always asks us about it.
And he's opened up kind of his clinic to do some surgery rotations.
Um, some physical therapy, um, sites have agreed to let our students do some
internships and some shadowing with them.
(02:15):
Um, and then we have also professional ranks that, um, we're going to hopefully
do some stuff with the Sioux city musketeers, Sioux city bandits, and the,
uh, explorers, um, to kind of see behind the scenes, what kind of
sports medicine do they have?
So some exciting opportunities for students to come in and see some
different settings ranging from elementary all the way to the professional ranks.
(02:35):
And you just kind of answered my next question too.
How does this kind of help students prepare for career opportunities?
Um, the big thing is networking and relationship building.
Um, we want to put students in front of as many professionals as we can to kind
of see what they do, but then also network to possible graduate schools,
possible other internships, other possible other opportunities
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throughout the United States.
Um, and then we also do have a physical therapist from France, um, that a
student has kind of introduced me to.
So we're kind of working with them to see worldwide what we can do, either
internships within the clinics or even the Olympics.
And McKenna, just how fun is it to be a part of this exercise science
program with it being so new and what they're being so many opportunities
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to do classroom things, of course, but stuff outside of the classroom too.
It's been really fun to like, actually have like more hands on instead
of it just being more lecture.
Um, I think it allows like most of us are, um, people that want to go in an
active field of choice, like later on in life.
And so being able to have that hands on in the classroom, instead of just like
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it being lectures all the time, um, has helped a lot with just trying to get
more hands on experience, getting exposure, um, for like all the physical
therapy, athletic training opportunities as well.
So it's been really fun just to kind of be able to have all those opportunities
now that we've added this program.
What drew you to being an exercise science student and
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then what got you interested?
Um, my freshman year, I actually did, uh, like a job shadow with Katie here on
campus for athletic training and I really enjoyed it and I could really see myself
like more in like a hands on field instead of like just sitting in an office.
And so I really was looking forward to like majoring in biology just because
that was what we had at the time, my freshman year.
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Um, but then we, this last year there was talk about adding a new exercise
science program and I knew that was something that would be more geared
towards what I was interested in, athletic training, physical therapy type world.
Um, so when I saw that we were adding like kinesiology and like more classes
that are like dealing with, um, like hands on medical type stuff, I knew that
(04:47):
was something that I really wanted to take advantage of and going into my junior
year, I knew it was, might've been a little bit of a stretch, like being
able to complete it fully.
But, um, Greg has been really good to work with and like trying to get all the
classes in before graduation next year.
Greg, what's it like seeing a student like McKenna and all the other
students dive headfirst the way that they have?
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It's been very impressive.
Um, last semester we had a motor development and an intro course and without
really any background in exercise science, um, the students did phenomenal
on two or three projects that were, um, I'd rate right up there with kind of
those in a traditional program where they've started as a first year student.
(05:29):
Um, and so it's been very impressive, very encouraging, inspiring, um, to
kind of throw stuff at students and they come out on top and it's some of the
work they've done has just been so impressive.
Um, this semester we'll do some stuff with the Palmer Symposium.
Um, and so we're starting to roll with some research projects.
We're starting to get topics kind of set up and some, uh, all the IRB process,
(05:53):
but I'm really looking forward to that to see what kind of posters they present.
Um, it's going to be very basic, um, six week projects.
Um, but I'm very interested to see how those turn out and what they look like
and what the students come up with.
Talk to me a little bit more about this Palmer Symposium and
you can both talk about it.
Well, what's, what's this semester looking like in terms of that?
Okay.
(06:14):
Um, so the, um, assessments class fitness assessment, um, it's all about collecting
data, collecting assessments on fitness, um, topics.
So right now we're doing kind of cardio respiratory.
So how in shape are students, how in shape are, um, individuals.
Um, and so this is just a spinoff of a six week project where they'll do with a
(06:37):
partner, um, we have groups of two, we have groups of three, um, and they
come up with the topic, they have to do a pretest, um, week one, they'll do the
same pre or same test as a post-test week six, and they do some type of
project, um, over the four weeks.
Um, so flexibility is kind of the first two that came up and so
we'll do a flexibility pretest.
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Then the students come up with a program within their sports, with their subjects,
and then they do a post-test and then they create a poster from their results.
Having like being able to like, talk about your research, like in Palmer is like a
great opportunity to get into grad school.
A lot of, um, people don't always do that.
So that's sometimes what grad, um, people would ask about, um, is how much research
(07:20):
you've done and how exposed you are to like talking about your research.
And so being able to do that this year and probably next year as well is going
to help with getting into grad school.
And I think it would be really cool to kind of, I'm doing softball and baseball
and comparing the two and hamstring flexibility.
And so I think it would be really cool to kind of see a sport that I'm involved
(07:40):
in and how, um, you can kind of make it better with, um, a program that I put
together and kind of basing it off of that.
As an athlete, how interesting is it to see the scientific side
of sports as a student athlete?
Yeah, it's been really cool.
Like I've been learning new things probably every single day.
(08:01):
Like last year we talked a lot about like warming up and like stretching and type
stuff.
I think it's just something that I'll be able to take throughout these next two
years.
Um, and maybe being able to help like my teammates and stuff along the way with
this program, maybe there'll be able to implement that and maybe their everyday
lives to help with the hamstring flexibility as well.
And you just answered my next question, what, the things that you learn, do you
(08:25):
go back and tell your teammates about, Hey, here's what I learned.
Here's how you can get better from this, from the research I've gained.
Yeah.
I'm hoping that I'll be able to, especially when I presented at Palmer, there's
going to be lots of athletes that will probably be involved in that type of
coming in and listening to different types of, um, projects that people have
done.
So I'm hoping that it can get spread throughout all the athletes here on
(08:47):
campus, not just my teammates, but, um, I know a lot of different people in our
class are going to do a lots of different types of, um, flexibility.
And I think they're doing like importance of warming up and stuff like that.
And so hopefully when some athletes come in, they can gain all that knowledge and
be able to spread it across the whole campus.
Great.
I've noticed that when I go into the M club for coffee, some cookie, or when I
(09:11):
film, like the get to know you videos on social media on the social media side,
by the way, go look at that on inside my things on the Facebook and Instagram
pages, if you would, I see a lot of equipment in there.
What's that like to use the M club room as a classroom and have that space for
interactive to be, to be more interactive.
(09:32):
Um, athletics has been great.
Um, Jim Sykes is who I kind of went to, to propose the idea of, can we use this
temporarily kind of to just get us through the year space to go space to kind of
carve out, um, where we can put, um, this year we got an Erickson, um, motion
analysis system.
Um, so we can put sensors on athletes and we can test, or we can know, uh, we can
(09:55):
monitor any motion that they do.
Um, so we did some running stuff last semester.
We did some dynamic warmups and dynamic skips, and hopefully this year in
biomechanics, we can expand on that.
Um, but it's nice in the M club room because we have a place to store it, but
then we also have a huge space that we can go out and do different things in, do
different things on.
Um, moving forward, uh, they're working on a kind of a dedicated lab space for
(10:20):
exercise science.
Um, because we have more stuff coming in next year.
Um, we have some high speed treadmills, um, that are coming in.
They'll go 17 miles an hour.
Um, so we can do some speed stuff.
We can do some more testing stuff.
Um, we have specialized bikes that are coming in that we can do some more testing
with, um, with power and, uh, max VO twos.
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Um, we have a power platform, we have a biodex and we have underwater wing all
coming in next year that we can, um, start using.
And so this year we're kind of scratching the surface of kind of what we can do.
And then next year it'll kind of be a full blown.
Here's everything we got.
What do you think it'll be like when everything is full blown, full equipment?
What do you feel like how that's going to, what that's going to be like going into
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next year?
It'll be really cool.
It'll be a wow factor.
Um, kind of how you set their, how we're going to set the room up when you walk in.
Um, power platform is a lifting platform that'll have the Mustang head on it.
Um, we'll be able to do Olympic lifts on it.
We'll be able to do Olympic testing on it.
So not only will they be doing weightlifting stuff, but we can measure force.
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We can measure movement.
We can measure all different kinds of things.
Um, but that setup, um, it'll also have a squat rack.
It'll have a bench press.
That'll kind of be the centerpiece.
Um, and that's really impressive when you have it all set up.
And the first thing you see when you walk in the room, um, biodex, um, I would say
there might only be one other one in Sioux city, maybe.
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Um, and so we'll have one on campus and we've talked to CNOS already about doing
some testing for them.
Um, so it's ideally used for ACLs.
So students, athletes coming back from ACL tears, we can do a biodex test on them and
tell them kind of where they're at comparison side to side.
Um, so they're very interested in seeing that and wanting to be a part of that.
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And, um, yeah, it's going to be, it'll be really cool.
Well monitor set up and we'll have, we'll have a nice wow factor that when
you walk in this, it'll be impressive.
So with all the testing and all the equipment that might be coming in and the
equipment that you've been testing with already, do you feel like you've become a
better athlete and maybe even a smarter athlete with all the knowledge that you've
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gained so far this year?
I would definitely say I've gained like a lot of knowledge.
Um, typically athletes don't really like the warmups and stuff like that.
Like they just eat it, that it's like unnecessary, but after like, we've talked
about it, like there's so many more risks as energy or injuries when you don't do
these warmups.
Um, so now I kind of, I think I take the warmups more for granted, especially as I
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get older, going into my senior year, not as agile as I was my freshman year, I
would say.
And so I do think like just these classes itself has helped me like understand more
of like the basics that my coach might be honing in on me that I don't necessarily
understand, like right at the beginning, coming in freshman year.
Um, but being able to learn about that, I definitely do think that it's helped me
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like become a smarter athlete, um, when kind of talking about recovery and injury
and type of stuff.
You know, we're only six, seven months into this.
Um, but that is kind of the goal down the road is to not only educate the athletes,
but educate the coaches about recovery and, um, you know, do things smarter, do
things more efficiently.
Um, and there's some things we're going to be able to do produce data that kind of
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shows, Hey, you guys have had two really hard weeks and everybody's just beat.
You need to lighten up a little bit so we can recover.
And, um, then that'll all be coming down the road over the next semester, a couple
of semesters.
Could you re-answer that question, please?
Yeah.
Go ahead.
Um, I think that it has really helped me like gain knowledge as an athlete, for
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sure.
Um, we never used to think as athletes that warming up was that like important and
stuff.
And so being able to kind of just learn about the dynamics and how that can really
help with injury prevention.
Um, I really think that I've been able to take that into my sports and being able
just to understand, um, that to keep, keep up with, um, injury prevention and, um,
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flexibility and stuff, the warmup stuff is probably something that is probably
pretty important.
And so being able to understand why my coach really wants to kind of have those
stuff honed in and understanding the little things like that's probably one of
the little things that most athletes don't really tend to think about.
And so I think I, it's helped me kind of gain knowledge within my sport for sure.
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And to your point, Greg, you mentioned the coaches, how receptive have the coaches
been with this program?
Oh, very receptive.
Um, they all knew who they all know who I am.
And, um, yeah, I'm seeing lots of their athletes as prospective students.
Um, they're very supportive.
Um, baseball, I've talked to them a little bit about, um, getting a pitching
mound, doing some force plate stuff and a pitching mound.
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So cutting out, um, spots where the force plates could go.
Um, but yeah, they've all been super supportive.
They've been very flexible.
They've, um, reached out what they can do, what they can help me with.
Um, and then kind of on the flip side too, um, I've met with Cindy Welp a couple
times, so I'm in HR about doing some, uh, faculty staff kind of campus wide
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stuff, um, where we can kind of educate the whole campus on different wellness
activities, different things that we can do to kind of promote a healthy lifestyle.
For more on the exercise science program, go check out Morningside.edu.
Thanks for joining us guys.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Thank you so much.
Yep.
Thank you very much.
This was fun.
That'll do it for this edition of Inside M-Side.
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Make sure to like, and subscribe us on YouTube or your favorite audio
platform, and make sure to follow along throughout the rest of the semester,
as we'll have more episodes for you here in the spring.
For the university engagement staff and everyone else here at
Morningside University, I'm Zach James.
Thank you so much for watching and listening to this edition
of the Inside M-Side podcast.
We'll talk to you next time.
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