Why I Parked Workout Roulette

May 25, 2026

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This post is part of the Parked section: things I started and stopped, with a writeup on why.

What it was

A randomized workout generator. You'd open it, hit a button, and get a workout calibrated to the time you had, the equipment available, and your energy level. The pitch was "no decision fatigue, just results."

Why I built it

[scaffold: the original motivation. Personal pain point about decision fatigue around training? Something you'd been doing manually and wanted to automate?]

What worked

[scaffold: the early signal that made it feel real. Number of times you used it. What the randomness actually unlocked.]

What broke

[scaffold: the failure mode. Probably one of: habit formed, randomness became noise, didn't match how you actually train, etc.]

What I'm keeping

[scaffold: the portable insight. The shape of the problem that's still worth solving in a different form, or the constraint set worth carrying forward.]

Why I'm not coming back to it

[scaffold: opportunity cost. What got the time instead. The honest "this isn't where leverage is" answer.]

Other parked writeups: Friendcall

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