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I have know Jimmy since 1981, and I can tell you that he was in no way knocking the guy for using #20's. The weight was listed only to fully describe the scene. Have also trained at that gym for a few years, I know exactly what Jimmy is talking about with all of the zipperheads that "train" there. Hoards of the 18-20 y/o crowd doing swinging alt DB curls then showing each other their stomachs in between sets. The uniform of the day at that gym is: Wife-beater tank top, skin tight shorts, 6-8 gold chains, 1 quart of hair gel, lifting gloves and !@*!!@ leather lifting belt that never comes off. At that gym, I have had people tell me "You can squat more if you don't go down sooo far" and "If you bounce it off of your chest, you can do more".

Another story about the guys at the gym Jimmy goes to: When I was training there a few years ago, there were a group of the zipperheads doing, well, I guess, deadlifts, with WAY too much weight and with dangerously bad form. I went over to them and told them that "It really isn't any of my business, but guys are doing those deadlifts wrong and you could get hurt", to which one of them responded," Yeah old man it isn't any of your F%^&ing business". I said OK, and went along doing what I was doing. The next week, I was there doing deadlifts myself. It was my last deadlift workout before a "push-pull" meet, so I was warming up to what was going to be my opener....575. After I pulled it, the same guys from the previous week came up to me, looking at the ground, with "their tails between their legs" and said, Last week you said we weren't doing those right. Can you show us how to do them?". I know it was wrong of me, but I couldn't resist, I told them,"NO, it isn't any of my F%^&ing business". and I walked away.

Don't worry so much about "head up". Your head can be "up" and your back can be rounded. Instead try to keep you CHEST up. If your chest is "up" you back HAS to be arched.