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overtrain

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vb. (cx ambitransitive English) To train too much or too long.

Usage examples of overtrain.

Training didn't exactly slack off, but it did stabilize, lest the men become overtrained and dulled by the routine.

All six apes were stringy-looking, like those overtrained fleaweight college wrestlers who have run so many laps and taken so many B-12s and diuretics at the training table that they appear to be little dried-up lengths of gristle, nodes, and nerve ganglia.

Of course, the ape had been, as it were, overtrained for such a moment and was long past being able to let such things alter his behavior.

The least little bit overtrained, that’s all,” He might have been talking about a distance runner.

Grimsby hadn't overtrained him for this meet, heeding the Harker brothers' advice some six months before to keep laps at no more than ten per day.

At first it seemed that Maarken might be overtrained, especially compared to Masul’s brutal directness.

What it felt like was overtraining, but he hadn't been working that hard, no more than maintenance stuff.

What you did for a light workout as a shave tail is overtraining for a colonel old enough to be that boy's father.

Duane Fisk, the officer assigned as my trainer and second, warned me about overtraining, but I ignored him and kept pushing up until forty-eight hours before the bout.