"Your body is the most expensive tool in the van.
Mind your kit."
Knees. Backs. Shoulders. Look after your kit, and your kit will look after you.
Message Col on WhatsApp →If you've been on the tools for ten years or more, you know how the day starts. Out of bed slow. Back stiff before you've even put your feet on the floor. Hips that don't really wake up until you've had a cuppa and a hot shower. Knees that take twenty minutes of moving around before they remember what they're for.
Most trades chalk it up to age. Or yesterday's job. Or the weather. It's none of those things, not really. It's wear, inflammation, and what your body's running on, day after day, year after year, with too little time to actually recover before the next shift starts.
You service the van. You sharpen your blades. You maintain your gear. Your body is the bit doing the actual work, and most of us give it less attention than the hand grinder.
If you're waking up sore most days, your body isn't recovering between shifts. The repair work that should be happening overnight isn't keeping up with the wear that's happening on the job. And once that gap opens up, it tends to widen. Month after month, year after year, until one morning you can't remember the last time you woke up feeling alright.
Targeted joint and cartilage nutrition is one of the most well-evidenced areas of supplementation. The right formulation, taken consistently, is designed to help support joint and cartilage function. Not paper over the cracks, but support what your body is already trying to do to maintain itself between one shift and the next.
Col works with a clinically-grounded, independently-certified range of nutritional formulations. Third-party tested, with strong absorption profiles. Which specific products fit your situation depends on your situation. That's what the consultation is for.
Once the mornings start feeling alright again, the next thing trades start noticing is how the day finishes. The 2pm energy dip on a long shift. Whatever's left in the tank when you're loading the van. The version of you that walks through the front door at 6pm.
Targeted nutritional support is also designed to help maintain stable energy through long working days, support normal blood sugar levels during physical exertion, and avoid the crash that turns the last two hours of the shift into a slog.
Most people start with recovery and joint support. The morning issue is usually the bigger one. Then they add in energy and stable performance once they feel the difference and want more. Col will tell you what's worth adding for your situation, or whether to wait. No pressure either way.
Talk to Col about what to layer in →Col Bucknor has been a tiler in the UK and Australia for 45 years.
21 years ago, sciatica nearly finished his career. The kind of pain that takes you off the job for weeks, has you lying flat on the floor at lunchtime, and starts you wondering whether you've got another decade in you or whether the body's already given its answer. Like most trades, he'd been chalking it up to age. Getting through it. Eating whatever was in the van.
Getting his nutrition right was part of how he got back to work and stayed there. Not the only part, but a part he hadn't realised mattered. 21 years on, he's still on the tools, still using the same approach to nutritional support. He now runs Glyco Guru, an independent practice based in the UK and Australia, helping other trades work out whether targeted nutritional support fits their situation. Ideally before they end up where he ended up.
Col isn't a salesman. He runs free 1-to-1 consultations to work out whether what worked for him could help you, or whether it won't. If it won't, he'll tell you straight. Most of his customers come through word of mouth. Tradies talking to tradies.
If you'd rather have a five-minute chat first to work out if any of this is worth your time, WhatsApp him. Most people find the chat saves them buying the wrong thing.
Try it for up to 90 days. If it's not working for you, send it back (opened, half-used, even an empty bottle) for a full refund of the product price and tax. You cover the return postage. Easy enough to try. Harder to keep ignoring a body that's telling you something.
WhatsApp Col. Get a straight answer. No pressure, no follow-ups, no list.