That's the big difference between a "weightlifting gym", the first gym; and a "gym with weights", the second gym. The people going to the first go regularly and

That's the big difference between a "weightlifting gym", the first gym; and a "gym with weights", the second gym. The people going to the first go regularly and treat it like home, and the owners have to charge accordingly to buy and maintain good equipment, making it a place where the users choose to go. In the second, the preferred customer is someone that pays for a long contract but never goes to the gym and there's no point it making it other than surface-level nice. Then again the second gym costs half or a third of the first gym.