Ground. Work. Grow.
Min max your life.
One thing. Not every day, not everything.
You already own more than you use, because a room is bigger than you can keep track of.
One thing, and everything it touches
The Olympic barbell in this garage does nothing on its own. With the Olympic weight plates it does five: Floor press, Standing press, Barbell row, Back squat and Deadlift.
And ten other things here reach the same movements their own way — Adjustable bench (bench press), Cable / pulley station (cable row) and Gymnastic rings (ring push-ups). Add one, move one, let one go, and every line above changes with it.
Computed from the 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 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
The loop
Photograph a room and Groundwork draws it — simply at first, then richer because your record did, and nothing in it is made up. If it is drawn, it is there.
One house · every way of seeing itThree rooms, fourteen things, all drawn from photographs.
Eight ways to draw one garage
One garage, drawn eight ways. What the space means to you is different for everyone. What it can do is the same.
Groundwork. The vibes will be up to you.
Work · three moves
- 01Snap the roomEvery 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.
Groundwork · Evan Carrigan
No photo with a person in it is ever kept. There is no setting that turns that off.