PITTSBURGH -- Illinois offensive lineman Kendrick Green's goal seemed simple enough: complete one Nordic curl by the end of his pre-draft training with offensive line guru Duke Manyweather.
Just one curl in 12 weeks.
But in reality, releasing his 6-foot-4, 312-pound frame from kneeling perpendicular to the ground to descending until his face mashed into the turf to pulling himself back to his beginning point required an immense amount of control -- and strength.
The first time he tried it in January, Green wasn’t far off from completing the reverse sit-up. And yet, it still took working on the skill every week of his training before he finally completed the curl start to finish on March 8, yelling as he triumphantly stood up from the rep.