Word: overtraining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recall proudly that "His childhood was absolutely chaste. It was not until he was sixteen that he had his first liaison, with the lovely E ..." A mother who thought 16 an advanced age for the beginning of love was hardly likely to overtrain him in discipline. Accordingly, when the family lost its fortune in the Franco-Prussian war and Guy had to become a clerk in Paris, he complained bitterly...
...cadet took the controls of a training plane, went through all the motions of piloting. Day after day physical training experts studied his every move, took notes on which muscles he used most often. Purpose of this Army project at Maxwell Field, Ala. was to design exercise which would "overtrain" the most used muscles and thereby reduce pilot strain...