Our gym was started in the basement of "Teacher"  with an old DP weight bench and a set of plastic weights, just over 18 moths ago. To date we now have 2 Olympic benches, a lat pulldown/row machine, a leg press machine, a squat/power rack, 2 incline/deline benches, a situp/dumbell bench, 3 olympic weight sets, at least 4 dumbell sets and various weights and handles, we've made a barbee T-bar lat row station and we've rigged wire and plastic milk crates for weight stands and exercise stations. But more than anything we might have amassed materially nothing can compare to the comradery and unselfish well wishes for the group, whose age range is from 67 years old to sixteen years old whom are all held to the same standards. No slop and no comprimises.