F3 Nation

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]

1. Be free of charge.
2. Be open to all men.
3. Be held outdoors, rain or shine, heat or cold.
4. Be led by men who participate in the workout in a rotating fashion, with no training or certification necessary.
5. 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]