Nobody really likes doing widowmakers - you only like the rush of accomplishment after completing them. If you aren’t scared before you begin, you probably aren’t going far enough mentally in them.
That’s because the desired aesthetic of bodybuilding as we’ve always known it does not promote even development of all muscles. It rewards small waistlines and an X shape. This pervasive ideology has entirely shaped the way people like yourself view ‘complete development’.
Look at a gorilla - the pinnacle of natural primate muscle. Look how enormous the abs, erectors, obliques are. That is even development, and you can see it in how a leaner heavyweight open strongman typically develops. Even when you take the bodyfat away, if you diet down someone strong those muscles will be proportionally larger than is rewarded in bodybuilding. Bodybuilding instead focuses on underdevelopment of those (in relationship) while hyper focusing on extremities. Look at the necessity of site enhancement in things like calves, delts, arms. NOBODY ever site enhances erectors, abs, obliques. They wear waist trainers.
Lower body has abs, obliques, erectors, hips, glutes, hams, quads, adductors, abductors, calves. But in bodybuilding they just call that “Legs” and relegate it to one day per week in a bro split, or 1/3 of the focus in PPL. Most of those muscles are bigger and stronger than triceps, biceps, forearms, pecs, delts, lats, traps.
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