george
heaton

george’s day.

• 5:00 am
  A 5 am wake-up

  “It’s 5am wake-up calls and I’m in the office by 6am.”

  sleep
• 5–6 am
  Dog, coffee, drive

  “That hour in between means coming down, taking the dog out, getting him fed, getting a little coffee in me and driving straight to work. It’s pretty simple.”

• Long-run days
  Salt before and during long runs

  around 1,000 mg of salt before a long run and another 1,000 mg during it, with about a litre of water beforehand.

  energy
• Lifting days
  Creatine and omega-3s

  on days he lifts rather than runs, he takes creatine and omega-3s.

• Afternoons and nights
  Time back, every day

  the time difference frees up his afternoons and nights: “I like to spend a lot of time with my girlfriend and the dog, getting out, doing hikes.”

• After work
  The gym in the evening

  hitting the gym later in the day, “things I wasn’t used to doing at night when I was in the UK. It was always work mode. Now I get a little break, kind of daily.”

  fitness

• In bed
  A cooling mattress

  the one thing he says every founder should have at home is a cooling mattress: “It cools you down when you’re in bed. Especially out here in California, you get warm nights, so keeping it cool means you get a better sleep.”

  sleep

• Most weeks
  About an hour, five times a week

  his mix is CrossFit, Hyrox, marathons and some bodybuilding: “You can get this thing done in 60 minutes, five times a week and it can change your whole life.”

  fitness
• Every 6–12 weeks
  Change the training block

  he rotates between CrossFit, Hyrox, marathon running and bodybuilding blocks of six to 12 weeks.

  fitness
• Long runs
  Long runs for ideas

  “Some of my best ideas have come from long runs and heavy CrossFit circuits.”

  focus