The best way to improve flexibility is through a consistent stretching routine, which is laid out below. This report focuses on flexibility of the lower body, the most important part for jumps and splits. This routine can be followed exactly or mixed with other stretching drills, as the coach feels necessary.
The definition of restive is someone who feels nervous when criticized or controlled, or a person or animal that stubbornly refuses to move forward. An increasingly impatient child who is become more tense and unruly is an example of someone who would be described as restive.
To be restive is to be impatient or on edge â it's an edgy state. When you feel like your skin is too tight and your nerves are ready to snap, when you feel ready to explode, you are restive. It's not only people who can be restive: the world suffers from much turmoil, and there are restive areas, where people are unhappy or oppressed and desperate for change. It's that need for change and movement that makes someone restive or eager to move, frustrated at being stuck in one place. This sense of being stuck is obvious in the history of the word, which was first used in the 15th century.