I bring my wife to the gym for the sole reason to spot me. I figure if I need more than a small womans strength to finish a lift, I need to kill myself.
As ive said before, the only time its acceptable to ask for a spot is if you're working with 3 plate+ ... if you cant lift that, than you need to just die under the bar like man. Imagine a grown man asking for a spot benching 225.....pffft.
My gf comes with me, I thought the same thing - "anymore than fingertips and I'm as well dying under the bar". Anyway, I was benching (more than 3 plates a side of course) - 6, 7 start to feel arm shaking 8, can get one more rep... 8 and a half,ni... fuck, not happening.
OK Adri, spot me... Adri... halp? Girlfriend had hand over mouth and squealed oh my god and ran off, bar firmly on my chest at this point. She got two twinks to help lift bar off me and said she was so scared when I asked for help.
Oh lawdy.