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In moderation physical exercises may improve health and strength without tending to deprive the vital organs of nourishment. But the overtrained woman is farther from the healthy life of nature than the overtrained man. And whether the overexertion be of the body or of the intelligence, it tends to destroy true womanliness.
Through such a quiet deepening of the life of the people was the nation preparing for its final development of religion. True it is that in the latter part of this period the nation showed unmistakable signs of being overtrained. The hedge made about the Law had fenced men off from one thing after another until, to men who were anxious not to offend, life became a weary burden.
The man who wins the world's honors to-day must not be overtrained mentally or physically; not, as John Randolph said of the soil of Virginia, "poor by nature and ruined by cultivation," hollow-chested, convex in back, imperfect in sight, shuffling in gait, and flabby in muscle.
Here Stella Croyle is with us and she can't get away. You can." Luttrell was not satisfied. His grey eyes and thin, clean features were troubled like those of a man in physical pain. "You don't know the strange, queer tie between Stella Croyle and me," he said. "And I can't tell you it." Hardiman grew anxious. Luttrell had the look of a man overtrained, and it was worry which had overtrained him.
"Much like other men, I suppose, who have been a year or two in the Soudan, a trifle overtrained and that sort of thing." "Never mind," said Ethne, with a sigh of disappointment. For five years she had heard no word of Harry Feversham. She fairly hungered for news of him, for the sound of his habitual phrases, for the description of his familiar gestures.
Now, my dear enthusiastic friend," she was looking at him in that intent way of hers "I've noticed two or three times that you've about jumped out of your chair at some meaningless noise in the other room. Your eyes tell the story; oh there are various ways of reading it. You're a little overtrained.
When anyone, in training for an event, gets "stale," or overtrained, and loses his appetite and his sleep, he had better stop at once, for that is a sign that he is using more energy than his food is able to give him through his stomach; and the stomach has consequently "gone on a strike." How to Avoid Heart Overstrain and Heart Disease.
Seems foolish, I know, but it do' seem as if a good po'k-chop, fried jes right, would he'p consid'able to disumpate this misery feelin' that's crawlin' and creepin' round my sperit." Stuhk laughed. "Pork-chop, eh? Is that the best you can think of? I know what you mean, though. I've thought for some time that you were getting a little overtrained.
I know now that the speed and strenuousness of it was telling upon all of us. But we did not realize it then. John Crondall seemed positively tireless. The rest of us had our moments of exhaustion, but never, I think, of depression. Our work was too finely productive and too richly rewarded for that. But we were thin, and a little fine-drawn, like athletes somewhat overtrained.
I'd thought of the exam., of course. You'll have to-morrow to recover. It'll do you all the good in the world. And you know you're more than ready for the thing. You don't want to be overtrained, my son. Besides, you'll sail through it. As for 'can't, 'can't' be damned. You've got to." A telegraph boy, after hesitating at the empty cubicle, came straight into the room. "Name of Cannon?"
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