overtrainv.
/ˌəʊvəˈtreɪn/, U.S. /ˌoʊvərˈtreɪn/ 1. transitive. To train (an animal, person, etc.) too much; to debilitate or injure by excessive training. Also: to train (a climbing plant) too much or too high.
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1872 H. W. Beecher Pop. Lect. Preaching viii. 157 You may over-train a man, so that he is carried beyond his highest power.
1883 J. Y. Stratton Hops & Hop-pickers 19 Several beautiful and delicate varieties [of the hop] are easily overtrained if sixteen..feet are exceeded.
1910 Blackwood's Mag. Jan. 135/1 I was as hard as nails..; but was over-trained, and after a time did the walking, and even the shooting, with some loss of the keenness with which I began it.
1971 Nature 10 Sept. 126/2 Here rats are overtrained (by means of foot shock) to avoid entering a black box.
1995 Daily Tel. 4 Apr. 15/4 We managed to teach her to read..though a social worker later said that my mother had ‘overtrained’ Carly and given her inappropriate middle-class aspirations.
2. intransitive. Of an athlete, worker, etc.: to train excessively.
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1915 Times 7 Sept. 8 The aim is to keep always up to the maximum of efficiency and not to overtrain to staleness or to permit of any slackness.
1985 Bodypower Oct. p. v/3 If you feel tired when you wake up, generally listless or irritable, then chances are you are overtraining.
1998 Cycling Today July 40/1 The more you overtrain on a regular basis, ignoring the hazard lights, the more seriously your body will break down.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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