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Years Pickwell has spent competing as a bodybuilder
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Weeks Pickwell spent dieting prior to the WFF World Championships
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Weeks Pickwell spent juggling competition prep with teaching prior to the championships
PERSISTENCE PAYS OFF
For physical education teacher Andrew Pickwell, years of hard work have culminated in a coveted world title in bodybuilding FOR MOST of his life, primary physical education teacher Andrew Pickwell has followed a simple philosophy: Success presents itself in varying degrees and at different stages; failures are also a necessary part of the journey, and achieving your personal goals requires resilience, persistence and patience.
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Pickwell, who has been the PE specialist at Hatton Vale State School in the Lockyer Valley for the last 15 years, has long balanced his own training with teaching and coaching different sporting teams. He competed in his first bodybuilding competition in the novice division in 1996, but didn’t place. However, his persistence
paid off last year when he won the world title in the performance division at the World Fitness Federation World Championships in Cyprus. “After 22 years of competing with both success and failure,” Pickwell says, “it’s an incredible feeling achieving that ultimate goal.”
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