Over the past year, he turned his house's woodworking shop into a basement gym. The following conversation has been edited for length and clarity. I bought the five-bedroom house for $485,000 in 2019.

Bonnie Lee and her three children, Rebekah, Omar and Georgea, spend five days a week working out in a small basement gym with the Bay St. George Powerlifting Club. It all started about a year ago ...