Groundwork

The barbell's card in the app, on its With tab. A one-line read: in six movements, five of them because you also have Olympic weight plates. Then two groups: with the plates, floor press, standing press, barbell row, back squat and deadlift; with the landmine attachment, a sentence saying the bar drops into it and the far end becomes a lever, then landmine press, landmine row, landmine rotations and landmine squat. — One thing's card, in the app.

One thing, and everything it touches

Olympic weight plates do four movements on their own — plate carry, ground-to-overhead and plate pinch holds — and they are what the Olympic barbell needs for five more.

And fourteen other things here reach the same movements their own way — Power rack (bar hangs), Olympic barbell (landmine rotations) and Gymnastic rings (ring hollow holds). Add one, move one, let one go, and every line above changes with it.

Computed from your record, the same way every time.

Ground · the room, measured

Every figure here came from somewhere. None of it is decorative.

16 × 20 ft, 8 ft to the joistsMeasured with a tape. No photograph can answer either.
12 × 8 ft of matting, three matsThe rack has one corner of it, so that is a bounding box and not usable floor.
The rack is against the right wallRecorded, not guessed — and what is on it comes off the record, not the drawing.

What one real record works out

52 things across 3 spaces, and what they do together. Every figure below was computed from that record — none of it 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

The loop

Photograph a space and Groundwork draws it. The drawing is of a space like yours; the record under it is yours exactly, and that is the part that changes when your things do.

A garage drawn warm and full of light: a power rack against the far wall, folding mats,
a bench, a wagon and two bikes, plants along the shelves, two rugs on the floor. — One real garage, from a photograph of it.

One house · every way of seeing itFive spaces and fourteen things. Four from photographs; the office is imagined.

Eight ways to draw one garage

What the space means to you is different for everyone. What it can do is the same.

The same garage drawn as brighter. — Brighter

The same garage drawn as plants and light. — Plants and light

The same garage drawn as forest light. — Forest light

The same garage drawn as adventure map. — Adventure map

The same garage drawn as building blocks. — Building blocks

The same garage drawn as cutaway. — Cutaway

The same garage drawn plainly, as it is. — As it is

Work · three moves

01Snap the spaceEvery photo waits until you say there is no person in it.
02Name what you seeOne per line, and the photo is the evidence.
03See what it does togetherOne kettlebell is a squat, a swing, a carry and a press. A rack you cannot get to is not really a rack.

Grow · and the good stuff

The dog in the sun. The plant that has got away from you. You do not control any of it.

None of it scores anything. A room with less in it is not a worse room.

Nothing is backed up yet. Everything stays on your device; clearing site data deletes it. Tell me what is annoying.

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

Ground. Work. Grow.