Strength and Conditioning

Our Mission

The goal of the Morningside University Strength and Conditioning Department is to help student-athletes maximize their athletic potential while limiting the risk of injury by utilizing proper periodization, programming, testing, and monitoring strategies. The department also provides athletes and coaches with necessary resources to optimize nutrition and recovery.

Training Principles

Scientific and Evidence-Based Training

Our mission as a program is to provide our student-athletes with the physical performance and mental discipline tools to perform at their best in intercollegiate athletic competition. We are committed to serving our student-athletes in giving them the guidance and support to succeed in academics and athletics, while instilling positive habits that will allow them to succeed in life beyond their years as a Morningside student-athlete.

Quality Technique

Quality technique is strength, no matter how much weight the individual is lifting. We make it an emphasis to teach our student-athletes to move well first before loading them.

Intent

Our goal is always for our training methods to result in not just positive adaptations in strength, power, speed, etc., but optimal adaptations. In order to optimize the effects of our training, every repetition must be performed with intent. One-hundred percent of the athlete’s effort and focus must go into every repetition, no matter the load or percentage of the athlete’s training max.

SAID Principle - Principle of Specificity

All general training methods/demands must elicit specific physical adaptations that transfer over to more sport-specific activities.

Core Values

Character

We will emphasize being a good human being before anything else. Respect and positivity toward others are vital to the success of our program.

Accountability

Each individual must do his or her job. Showing up on time (i.e., early), focusing on the task at hand, and working hard every day are standard practice in our program.

Effort

Of the many uncontrollable factors that may come with being a college student-athlete, one thing we can always control is our effort. No matter the circumstance, we must bring our best effort every day.

Confidence

By learning and performing various training methods, and pushing through strenuous work, we build confidence in our student-athletes. An individual must condition his or herself to confidently execute every repetition of every training session. A confident athlete during training and preparation helps to produce a confident athlete during competition.