Ground. Work. Grow.

The growth is for you.

Min max your life.

One thing. Not every day, not everything. Find one small thing and see what happens.

You already own more than you use. Not because you are lazy — because a room is bigger than what you can keep track of. Photograph your space, name what is in it, and Groundwork works out what it all does together.

Ground · what you already have

Inside a garage: daylight through the open door, a bulb lit overhead, a rack of plates
against the wall, a jump box, a sandbag, an air bike, and a person standing on the clear
floor. — The rack against the wall because it has to be, the boxes that never move, the clear floor in between.

Four real spaces

Not a gym. A space that has been worked out — what is in it, what it does together, and what is in the way. These four are one household's, and none of them was built to be one.

A garage gym: a tool pegboard and folding mats on the left, a power rack and plates on
the right, a bench, a fridge, a bike, hanging bags, joists and a warm bulb overhead. — **The garage**The rack against the wall because it has to be, the boxes that never move, and twelve feet of clear floor in between.

A back garden: a red line strung between two trees carrying gymnastic rings, trapeze
bars and a rope, a lower line at ankle height, a swing seat and a deck box. — **The back garden**Two lines between two trees. The high one takes rings, a rope, a suspension trainer. The low one takes your feet, or anchors a band. **Two anchors, and the count of what you can do off them is not two.**

A basement corner: cube shelving loaded with kit, a free-standing full-length mirror,
foam rollers, a spiked acupressure mat, a hooked massage cane and a staircase. — **The recovery corner**A shelf, a roller, and a mirror that stands free. The mirror is not decoration — it is how you check your own form when nobody is coaching you.

A basement desk: a white desk with a monitor and lamp, a chair, filing cabinets, suits
on rails either side, a staircase, shelves of boxed games and a kids' play mat. — **The desk**Which is also the wardrobe, the toy shelf and the way upstairs. **A room doing four jobs is the normal case, not the awkward one** — and ten minutes between calls is still a real ten minutes.

The vibes are up to you

One garage, drawn eight ways. Every one is the same real room — the same rack, the same two rugs, the same bag on the box — because each drawing starts from a photograph of it. Which way it is drawn is yours.

The same garage drawn in gouache. — Gouache

The same garage drawn in editorial. — Editorial

The same garage drawn in linocut. — Linocut

The same garage drawn in cut paper. — Cut paper

The same garage drawn in marquetry. — Marquetry

The same garage drawn in pencil. — Pencil

Groundwork. The vibes are up to you.

Work · three moves

Work is good when you are capable, you know what you are training for, and you are not carrying the whole room in your head.

01Snap the roomEvery photo waits until you say there is no person in it. Your own hand counts, so put things down rather than holding them up.
02Name what you seeOne per line. Nothing reads the photo for you — the photo is the evidence for each thing.
03See what it does togetherOne kettlebell is a squat, a swing, a carry and a press. Two belts on a rack are a pull-up bar. A rack you cannot get to is not really a rack.

Grow · and the good stuff

A sunlit corner: a dog asleep in a patch of light, a book left face down on the rug,
plants trailing from a shelf and standing in pots by the window, a rolled mat and a
kettlebell against the wall.

The dog in the sun. The plant on the shelf that has got away from you a bit. Whoever else uses the room, and the book they left face down. You do not control any of it — nothing here is waiting for you, nothing goes up because you showed up, and nothing goes down because you did not.

They are just there. And they are most of why the room is worth walking into.

None of it scores anything. It is your room, a room with less in it is not a worse room, and the room getting clearer is the only readout there is.

Under the picture

It is a drawing of a real room, and every part of it came from somewhere. Nothing here is decorative.

16 × 20 ft, 8 ft to the joistsMeasured with a tape. No photograph can answer either, and the ceiling is what decides whether you can press overhead.
12 × 8 ft of matting, three matsAnd the rack has one corner of it, so that is a bounding box and not usable floor. The record says so rather than reporting 96 sq ft nobody has.
The rack is against the right wallRecorded, not guessed. Move it in the record and it moves in the picture — that is the only way it ever moves.
Twelve things live on that rackBelts, straps, grippers, rings. Too small to draw from across the room, so the picture says how many rather than pretending.

What one real record works out

52 things across 3 spaces, and what they do together. Every figure below was computed by the product from that record when this page was built — none of them is typed here.

7 ways to horizontal pushBench press
7 ways to conditioningAir bike intervals
7 ways to trunkSuspension fallouts
6 ways to horizontal pullCable row

One kettlebell is a squat, a swing, a carry and a press. That is why the number is not the count of what you own.

Nothing is backed up yet. Everything stays on your device. Clearing site data deletes it for good, so do not put anything in it you would hate to lose. Tell me what is annoying — “this is too much” and “I did not get it” are the most useful things you can say, and there is a Report a problem button on every screen.

Groundwork · Evan Carrigan
No photo with a person in it is ever kept. There is no setting that turns that off.