I have been lifting weights for at least ten years. I’ve been CrossFitting for five. I’m no stranger to being the only girl in a gym doing olympic lifts, heavy weight, or handstand pushups. I have never once been asked to spot anyone. I have also never once worn a workout skirt in the gym.
I’m not too embarrassed to admit that I was completely out of workout shorts, and it was down to either wearing my Bikram yoga barely-even-shorts or a workout skirt to the gym, so the latter won.
Workout skirt:
Mine was black and from a SkirtChaser race I ran, but you get the idea.
I’m at the olympic rack working on snatches in one-minute intervals at 8:30pm on a Thursday night. The gym was empty when I came in but four guys have since come in to knock out a workout before the gym closes at 9. One of them, the skinniest, palest one, comes over and asks if I’d mind spotting him on the bench.
WTH?!
Never before.
I do it. It’s fairly uneventful (except him saying, “how long have you been over there lifting? I’m impressed!”) other than that the one and only time I’m wearing a dang skirt in the gym is the one and only time a dude asks me to spot him.