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1903 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 14 276 Such experiments would be those made upon..cross training, the effects of warming up, and the conditions of recovery.

1983 United Press Internat. Newswire (Nexis) 22 May John Howard..one of the nation's top bicycle racers..calls it cross-training. He mixes running, bicycling and swimming (and also adds some weights) to achieve full conditioning.

1995 Maxim July 36/2 In terms of general fitness, cross-training is the way forward. Too much of one sport..puts a repetitive strain on the muscles.

2003 E. G. Bruno Ironwomen never Rust 48 Most serious athletes in any sport these days do some form of cross-training.

1949 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 43 49 Cross-training of Air Force and Naval air personnel has been commenced on a limited scale.

1976 Aviation Week 10 May 123/3 Some simulator cross training is done with two-man FB-11 crews. Radar navigators are sometimes placed in the simulator left seat while pilots undergo training in the radar navigator position.

1988 Harvard Business Rev. Jan. 82/2 Dreyer's Grand ice Cream, for example, is one of several companies that has borrowed the Japanese concept of cross-training. Accountants are sent out on trucks to deliver the product they normally would know only as a column on a spreadsheet.

1995 Res.-Technol. Managem. Nov.–Dec. 6 The line had full integration of people and machines, with extensive cross-training of people from one machine to another.