i agree, having wide clavicles to begin with gives a bodybuilder an edge
Exactly = Genes.
that's true, but you'll never really know what your "genes" are until you really try look at roy callender when he was a young dude, you would never guess that he could be so massive and this only became apparent once he really tried
i know some guys who dont do any real trap work cause they believe thick traps make a person look narrow, i disagree, i think thick traps dont hurt a persons appearence of looking wide.
Melvin Anthony was a proponent of less or no trap work...Flex didn't do as much trap work after his accident---he had better traps in 93 than at anytime after.
it's more a matter of narrow guys typically have lower and wider trap insertions so the traps look much more pronounced. i don't think i've ever seen a "wide" guy with huge traps, unlike JoJ.