Coach Damon V demonstrates the negative lateral raise with Anna, a rare move that targets the lateral delts through controlled eccentric lowering. He highlights how athletes with SMA can hold and lower effectively, using progressions for stability, single-arm focus, and core engagement.
Transcript
What’s up, guys? Coach Damon V here with Miss Anna. We are going to show you guys a rare move. Today we’re going to do a negative lateral raise.
Sometimes our athletes with SMA can’t do the concentric on the way up, but once we help them get up, they can hold it isometrically and lower it down very well on their own.
So this is what it’s going to look like. I will raise her armrest up.
From here, arms on each side. I’ll take your phone and your gloves right here. All right. What we’re going to do is I’m going to help her raise.
Once I help her raise, she’s going to hold as tight as she can at the top. Ready? One. Two. Three — up. Hold and lower. Slow. Yes. All you. Nice.
Slowly. Slowly. Slowly. Very good. Let’s get two more reps — all the way up.
Hold. That’s all you. Hold, hold, hold. So these eccentrics are really targeting the lateral delts here. Up tall. Hold. Hold. Very nice. And I’m going to show you guys one more little progression to this.
So we’re going to do one at a time now.
So we come up both, Anna. Bring your right arm down only. Yep. Here. Now we’re focusing on one side. OK — other side.
And we’re getting some core stability with her having to stabilize while one arm goes up, one arm goes down. Switch.
Nice. You on the way up. Hold and up. Nice and rest. Nice work, Anna — give me some, girl. Good job.
