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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
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Morningside experience so special.
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Hello, and welcome in to its latest edition of the Inside M-Side podcast
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here on the Morningside YouTube channel, or if you're listening along on your
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favorite audio streaming platform, we welcome you in as well.
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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.
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Even though they're just starting, they're excited for some new projects
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that are coming up and they've got a slew of students who are learning
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big things in that program.
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Here to help us talk about it is Dr.
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Greg Stier, assistant professor of exercise science and Morningside
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junior McKenna Juris.
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She's a student in the program and she's really excited to help
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us talk about this as well.
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Guys, thanks for joining us.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Let's, let's get this started with this.
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Just tell me about the exercise science program from a 30,000 foot perspective
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and what's been going on lately.
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Um, so like I said, uh, August was the first time students could
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declare a major in exercise science.
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Um, there's about five classes right now that kind of make up the
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curriculum for more of the upperclassmen.
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And we've been working on, um, curriculum for next fall for kind of the freshmen
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or incoming freshmen class next year.
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And then this current freshmen class to kind of help them decide, do they
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want to go more strength and conditioning?
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Do they want to do athletic training?
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We have some physical therapy, um, chiropractic and some occupational
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therapy students that are all interested in it.
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So Greg, what separates this program from others in the field?
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Well, it's brand new is one of them.
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Um, so we have, we are brand new.
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Um, the other big thing is we, um, have a great partnership with CNOS.
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Um, I used to work with them, um, back in 2006 to 2010.
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And so Dr.
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Meese, um, is very, um, active and wants this program to succeed.
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So he's heavily invested and always asks us about it.
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And he's opened up kind of his clinic to do some surgery rotations.
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Um, some physical therapy, um, sites have agreed to let our students do some
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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
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do some stuff with the Sioux city musketeers, Sioux city bandits, and the,
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uh, explorers, um, to kind of see behind the scenes, what kind of
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sports medicine do they have?
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So some exciting opportunities for students to come in and see some
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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.
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How does this kind of help students prepare for career opportunities?
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Um, the big thing is networking and relationship building.
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Um, we want to put students in front of as many professionals as we can to kind
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of see what they do, but then also network to possible graduate schools,
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possible other internships, other possible other opportunities
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throughout the United States.
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Um, and then we also do have a physical therapist from France, um, that a
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student has kind of introduced me to.
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So we're kind of working with them to see worldwide what we can do, either
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internships within the clinics or even the Olympics.
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And McKenna, just how fun is it to be a part of this exercise science
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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.
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It's been really fun to like, actually have like more hands on instead
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of it just being more lecture.
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Um, I think it allows like most of us are, um, people that want to go in an
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active field of choice, like later on in life.
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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
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more hands on experience, getting exposure, um, for like all the physical
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therapy, athletic training opportunities as well.
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So it's been really fun just to kind of be able to have all those opportunities
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now that we've added this program.
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What drew you to being an exercise science student and
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then what got you interested?
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Um, my freshman year, I actually did, uh, like a job shadow with Katie here on
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campus for athletic training and I really enjoyed it and I could really see myself
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like more in like a hands on field instead of like just sitting in an office.
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that was what we had at the time, my freshman year.
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science program and I knew that was something that would be more geared
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towards what I was interested in, athletic training, physical therapy type world.
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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
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year, I knew it was, might've been a little bit of a stretch, like being
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able to complete it fully.
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But, um, Greg has been really good to work with and like trying to get all the
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classes in before graduation next year.
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Greg, what's it like seeing a student like McKenna and all the other
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students dive headfirst the way that they have?
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It's been very impressive.
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Um, last semester we had a motor development and an intro course and without
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really any background in exercise science, um, the students did phenomenal
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on two or three projects that were, um, I'd rate right up there with kind of
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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
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kind of throw stuff at students and they come out on top and it's some of the
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work they've done has just been so impressive.
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Um, this semester we'll do some stuff with the Palmer Symposium.
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Um, and so we're starting to roll with some research projects.
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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.
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Um, it's going to be very basic, um, six week projects.
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Um, but I'm very interested to see how those turn out and what they look like
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and what the students come up with.
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Talk to me a little bit more about this Palmer Symposium and
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you can both talk about it.
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Well, what's, what's this semester looking like in terms of that?
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Um, so the, um, assessments class fitness assessment, um, it's all about collecting
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data, collecting assessments on fitness, um, topics.
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So right now we're doing kind of cardio respiratory.
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So how in shape are students, how in shape are, um, individuals.
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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
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come up with the topic, they have to do a pretest, um, week one, they'll do the
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same pre or same test as a post-test week six, and they do some type of
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project, um, over the four weeks.
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Um, so flexibility is kind of the first two that came up and so
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we'll do a flexibility pretest.
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Then the students come up with a program within their sports, with their subjects,
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and then they do a post-test and then they create a poster from their results.
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Having like being able to like, talk about your research, like in Palmer is like a
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great opportunity to get into grad school.
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A lot of, um, people don't always do that.
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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.
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And so being able to do that this year and probably next year as well is going
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to help with getting into grad school.
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And I think it would be really cool to kind of, I'm doing softball and baseball
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and comparing the two and hamstring flexibility.
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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
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together and kind of basing it off of that.
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As an athlete, how interesting is it to see the scientific side
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of sports as a student athlete?
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Yeah, it's been really cool.
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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
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stuff.
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I think it's just something that I'll be able to take throughout these next two
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years.
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Um, and maybe being able to help like my teammates and stuff along the way with
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this program, maybe there'll be able to implement that and maybe their everyday
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lives to help with the hamstring flexibility as well.
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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.
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Here's how you can get better from this, from the research I've gained.
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I'm hoping that I'll be able to, especially when I presented at Palmer, there's
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going to be lots of athletes that will probably be involved in that type of
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coming in and listening to different types of, um, projects that people have
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done.
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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
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class are going to do a lots of different types of, um, flexibility.
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And I think they're doing like importance of warming up and stuff like that.
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And so hopefully when some athletes come in, they can gain all that knowledge and
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be able to spread it across the whole campus.
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Great.
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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,
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by the way, go look at that on inside my things on the Facebook and Instagram
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pages, if you would, I see a lot of equipment in there.
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What's that like to use the M club room as a classroom and have that space for
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interactive to be, to be more interactive.
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Um, athletics has been great.
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Um, Jim Sykes is who I kind of went to, to propose the idea of, can we use this
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temporarily kind of to just get us through the year space to go space to kind of
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carve out, um, where we can put, um, this year we got an Erickson, um, motion
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analysis system.
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monitor any motion that they do.
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biomechanics, we can expand on that.
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then we also have a huge space that we can go out and do different things in, do
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different things on.
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exercise science.
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They'll go 17 miles an hour.
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We can do some more testing stuff.
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with, um, with power and, uh, max VO twos.
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coming in next year that we can, um, start using.
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Here's everything we got.
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What do you think it'll be like when everything is full blown, full equipment?
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What do you feel like how that's going to, what that's going to be like going into
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It'll be really cool.
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It'll be a wow factor.
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Um, kind of how you set their, how we're going to set the room up when you walk in.
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We'll be able to do Olympic testing on it.
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So not only will they be doing weightlifting stuff, but we can measure force.
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We can measure movement.
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We can measure all different kinds of things.
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Um, but that setup, um, it'll also have a squat rack.
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That'll kind of be the centerpiece.
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Um, and that's really impressive when you have it all set up.
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there might only be one other one in Sioux city, maybe.
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some testing for them.
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Um, so it's ideally used for ACLs.
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So students, athletes coming back from ACL tears, we can do a biodex test on them and
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tell them kind of where they're at comparison side to side.
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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.
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Well monitor set up and we'll have, we'll have a nice wow factor that when
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you walk in this, it'll be impressive.
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So with all the testing and all the equipment that might be coming in and the
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equipment that you've been testing with already, do you feel like you've become a
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better athlete and maybe even a smarter athlete with all the knowledge that you've
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gained so far this year?
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I would definitely say I've gained like a lot of knowledge.
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Um, typically athletes don't really like the warmups and stuff like that.
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Like they just eat it, that it's like unnecessary, but after like, we've talked
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about it, like there's so many more risks as energy or injuries when you don't do
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these warmups.
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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
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would say.
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And so I do think like just these classes itself has helped me like understand more
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of like the basics that my coach might be honing in on me that I don't necessarily
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understand, like right at the beginning, coming in freshman year.
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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
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and type of stuff.
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You know, we're only six, seven months into this.
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Um, but that is kind of the goal down the road is to not only educate the athletes,
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but educate the coaches about recovery and, um, you know, do things smarter, do
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things more efficiently.
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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.
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You need to lighten up a little bit so we can recover.
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And, um, then that'll all be coming down the road over the next semester, a couple
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of semesters.
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Could you re-answer that question, please?
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Yeah.
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Go ahead.
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Um, I think that it has really helped me like gain knowledge as an athlete, for
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sure.
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Um, we never used to think as athletes that warming up was that like important and
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stuff.
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And so being able to kind of just learn about the dynamics and how that can really
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help with injury prevention.
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Um, I really think that I've been able to take that into my sports and being able
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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
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pretty important.
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And so being able to understand why my coach really wants to kind of have those
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stuff honed in and understanding the little things like that's probably one of
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the little things that most athletes don't really tend to think about.
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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
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been with this program?
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Oh, very receptive.
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Um, they all knew who they all know who I am.
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And, um, yeah, I'm seeing lots of their athletes as prospective students.
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Um, they're very supportive.
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Um, baseball, I've talked to them a little bit about, um, getting a pitching
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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.
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Um, but yeah, they've all been super supportive.
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They've been very flexible.
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They've, um, reached out what they can do, what they can help me with.
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Um, and then kind of on the flip side too, um, I've met with Cindy Welp a couple
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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
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activities, different things that we can do to kind of promote a healthy lifestyle.
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For more on the exercise science program, go check out Morningside.edu.
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Thanks for joining us guys.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Thank you very much.
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Thank you so much.
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Yep.
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Thank you very much.
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This was fun.
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That'll do it for this edition of Inside M-Side.
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as we'll have more episodes for you here in the spring.
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For the university engagement staff and everyone else here at
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Morningside University, I'm Zach James.
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Thank you so much for watching and listening to this edition
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of the Inside M-Side podcast.
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