Aaron Links

Aaron Links is an American natural bodybuilding competitor, born on 13 January 1981 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He competed in the American Natural Bodybuilding Conference, a drug-tested federation that has since disbanded. By his own account he began lifting seriously as a teenager after his mother beat him at arm wrestling. At nineteen he won the Junior Division and Novice Men's Open titles at the Southwest Classic in Albuquerque on 19 July 2000, then won the Junior Division again in 2002. In November 2003 he took the Junior Division National Champion title at the USA Championship in Boston and placed fifth in the Men's Open Tall class, and in 2004 he returned to that event to place second in the Men's Open Tall division and win the Best Posing Award. He graduated from the University of New Mexico in 2007 with a degree in journalism and later wrote fitness articles for an online publication.