It was a gruelling 18 weeks of pumps and lifts and crunches and lunges, at the body transformation challenge, but at the end of it, Willbur Glenn Colaco, didn’t just emerge fitter and stronger, but also became the only Indian Australian to take home titles in all three competitions at the South Australian Bodybuilding & Physique Championships held in three different Federations.
“I stood first in the International Natural Bodybuilding Association ‘Posing Routine’ and won the ‘Overall Best Male Poser’. I also came third in the Men’s Physique Division Short (below 173 cms),” says the resident of Adelaide.
Willbur also came second in two other competitions—the ‘Men: Sports Model Class 1 Division’—South Australia at the World Fitness Federation / National Amateur Body-Builders Association competition and the Australasian Natural Bodybuilding in the ‘Male Posing Theme Wear Routine’. He bagged third place in the ‘Men’s Physique Overall Champion’. “I think this journey and victory of mine will be an inspiration to many other Indians across Australia who would want to improve their own health and well-being,” says Willbur.
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