The represents everything right about modern fitness media. It is not staged reality TV drama; it is two elite humans emptying their tanks under a barbell.
Sam Bourne tends to hold his breath during the eccentric portion of the thruster. Amber, however, is audibly breathing through the movement—inhaling on the way down, exhaling on the press. This is textbook VO2 max management.
In a follow-up Instagram story (since deleted), Sam Bourne addressed the controversy: "If you think I would post a video where I got beaten by a bad call, you don't know my ego. She earned it. Watch the un-cut Patreon version."
The represents everything right about modern fitness media. It is not staged reality TV drama; it is two elite humans emptying their tanks under a barbell.
Sam Bourne tends to hold his breath during the eccentric portion of the thruster. Amber, however, is audibly breathing through the movement—inhaling on the way down, exhaling on the press. This is textbook VO2 max management.
In a follow-up Instagram story (since deleted), Sam Bourne addressed the controversy: "If you think I would post a video where I got beaten by a bad call, you don't know my ego. She earned it. Watch the un-cut Patreon version."