Deadlift analyzed

This powerlifter talks deadlift form. He talks  alot about keeping your head in line with your spine. But you have to keep one thing in mind. These powerlifters are wearing training belts, and belts support your lower spine throughout the entire range of motion in the deadlift. If you took the belts off, their lifts would decrease by one to three hundred pounds.

I've tried keeping my head in line with my spine, and it doesn't work for me. The main reason is that I don't wear a training belt, so I take in as much air as I possibly can and try my best to extend my belly out as far as I can and raise my head as high as I can to overemphasize the arch in my back. Click on this link to read how I lift without a belt.

  He  also talks about how if you keep the head in line with the spine, it will enable you to put a more severe arch in your back. That's fine and dandy if you're wearing a training belt like the powerlifters in his video, but I go completely raw in my workouts. I don't use training belts or talc powder. The only thing I do use is wrist straps in my deadlift. That's because I'm trying to put the tension on my back rather than on my hand grip. I could use a mixed grip where one hand goes over the bar and the other hand goes under the bar, but that hand position puts too much tension on one side of the body and encourages a twist in the stance to one side and thus the spine becomes  unaligned. If you keep lifting like that, you risk injury to your spine and hips and biceps.