Britain’s Fittest Farmer 2022 open for access

Farmers Weekly‘s 2022 Britain’s Fittest Farmer competitors is formally open for access.

The competition concentrates on the wellness and also well-being of our farmers to obtain them believing– and also, notably, speaking– regarding their physical and also psychological wellness to guarantee they remain in leading problem to run their organization.

Currently in its 4th year, the occasion has actually come to be a component in the farming schedule, drawing in numerous rivals from throughout the UK to find and also examine their stamina and also endurance with a series of psychological and also physical obstacles.

See likewise: Video clip: Britain’s Fittest Farmer– the 2021 finals

We’re trying to find farmers that make amazing ambassadors for health and wellness in farming, to aid damage the taboo of speaking about psychological wellness problems such as anxiety, consuming conditions and also country seclusion.

Britain’s Fittest Farmer was created to bring the topic of psychological wellness right into the open in an enjoyable and also comprehensive means, so you do not need to be an Olympic professional athlete to get in.

We invite those of all capacities matured 18 and also over that are operating in UK farming, and also this year we have actually paid attention to your responses and also included a brand-new classification to the competitors for the over-40s.

In 2015’s victors were 26-year-old James Arney from Somerset, and also 32-year-old Erica Robison from Cumbria. James scooped a historical dual win after his initial triumph in 2020.

” I definitely really did not assume I would certainly do it a 2nd time,” he stated, “yet I assumed I needed to go back and also safeguard my title– to make sure that nobody might claim it was simply good luck that I won the initial year!”

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Together With the various other finalists, James and also Erica dealt with a range of penalizing physical jobs created to examine the limitations of their endurance.

Both likewise excited the courts with their understandings on psychological wellness and also just how remaining in great physical form has actually added to the emotional stamina required to obtain them with obstacles and also difficult spells.

James, that works with the household ranch, is a huge follower in the advantages of workout– specifically for those in full-on, demanding industries such as farming.

” It can be tough to turn off when you live where you function, and also there is constantly something that requires doing,” he stated.

Health and fitness teacher Erica, that likewise assists on her daddy’s ranch simply over the boundary in Scotland, intends to get the word out regarding the value of great psychological wellness.

” Generations earlier, psychological wellness problems simply weren’t discussed, so there was no aid offered,” she stated. “This is why Britain’s Fittest Farmer is such an excellent campaign, since it places equivalent focus on psychological and also physical wellness, and also both are so carefully connected.”