F3 Nation, or F3, is a network of free, peer-led workouts for men, founded in the United States on January 1, 2011 in Charlotte, North Carolina with an estimated 75,000+ active participants. These participants can be found at approximately 4,368 workout locations in 48 different states and 17 countries on 5 continents [1]
The F3 name is an initialism, which stands for fitness, fellowship and faith, referring to the group's three organizing principles.[2]
F3 has 5 "Core Principles" for their workouts.[3]
- Be free of charge.
- Be open to all men.
- Be held outdoors, rain or shine, heat or cold.
- Be led by men who participate in the workout in a rotating fashion, with no training or certification necessary.
- End with a Circle of Trust.
F3 is affiliated with FiA, or Females in Action, a network of free, peer-led workouts for women.[4]
Each man participating in an F3 workout is assigned a nickname which he'll use during subsequent workouts.[5]
F3 began in 2011, in North Carolina, when two friends (David Redding and Tim Whitmire) in Charlotte, North Carolina started a boot camp style workout for men.[6]
F3 participants apply a distinctive lexicon of terms during their workouts. For example, an informal group leader is known as a "Nantan," a term adopted from an Apache word meaning chief.[7]
References
edit- ^ "F3 is a national network of free, peer-led workouts for men. Our mission is to plant, grow and serve small workout groups for men for the invigoration of male community leadership". F3 Nation. 12 February 2024. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
- ^ WRAL (2018-12-05). "F3 provides a workout for mind, body and soul". WRAL.com. Retrieved 2019-02-06.
- ^ F3Nation (2020-08-31). "Lexicon - F3 Nation - CORE PRINCIPLES". F3Nation.com. Retrieved 2020-08-31.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "'Toledo Miracle': Local exercise groups find faith in fitness". Toledo Blade. Retrieved 2019-02-06.
- ^ Wilson, Marie (2018-12-15). "How Fitness, Fellowship, Faith group helps Naperville men shape up, do good". Daily Herald. Retrieved 2019-02-06.
- ^ "Tyler Ryan learns about the workout group based on three fundamentals". ABC Columbia. 2018-02-08. Retrieved 2019-02-06.
- ^ Baker, Nathan. "Local Men's Group Exercises Leadership, Friendship Muscles". U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
