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. Photograph your space, name what is in it, and see what it all does together.
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 thirteen other things here reach the same movements their own way — Power rack (bar hangs), Gymnastic rings (ring hollow holds) and Suspension trainer (suspension fallouts). 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 room 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.
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.
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.