Breaking The Cycle: Ryan Hoover on Maintaining Your Edge in the Trades

The best in the trades treat their body like their most important tool, because it is. This one is about protecting it for the long haul. Ryan Hoover is a third-generation utility worker who decided his body would not end up like the generations before him. He joins Dr. Kevin Rindal to talk about bulletproofing your body for a long career in the trades: the prep-stress-recover formula, what Brazilian jiu-jitsu really teaches, training smarter as you age, and how he shifted his utility from safety done to workers to safety built with them.

A practical playbook for durability, resilience, and longevity in the trades.

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