The Health Diaries

Why the Founder of Tough Mudder Does Cardio to Relax

‘People that are more “successful” than me have made a different set of choices’

There are many ways to live a healthy life. The Health Diaries is a weekly series about the habits that keep notable people living well.

Will Dean is always on an adventure. The founder of Tough Mudder has launched yet another venture: a tech startup called Immersive Game Labs that allows users to create shared memories through gaming. Described as “part indoor theme park, part video game, part escape room,” the new company will launch in London this year and recently acquired over $3.2 million in seed funding.

Dean shares with Medium how he plans to help people make lasting shared memories, and why he considers himself “quintessentially English.”

My wife and I have two children under the age of four — so an alarm clock is superfluous. We usually get them up at 7:30 a.m., so I try to be up at 6:30 a.m. I have a bit of time to myself to get dressed and look at my inbox.

I focus on spending the morning with my family. I find it works better to have quality time then, than at the end of the day. We’ll have breakfast together. We eat a lot of fish in the morning —…