We are glad you’re here!
Maybe you heard about F3 through a friend, family member, neighbor, podcast, news outlet, wherever and now you’re here looking for more information.
F3 started in 2011 in Charlotte, North Carolina and has grown to more than 46 states and 3,400+ scheduled workouts each week through the efforts of men whose lives have been changed by their involvement with F3.
The three Fs in our name stand for Fitness, Fellowship and Faith — the last of which we define as simply a belief in something bigger than yourself.
FREE FOR ALL MEN OF ALL FITNESS LEVELS
Fitness
F3 workouts are open to men of all fitness levels and are organized to keep the entire group together while ensuring a thorough workout (beatdown) for all participants.
Our model, in which leadership of the workout varies from day-to-day and week-to-week, means that workout leaders — “Qs,” in F3 lingo — are constantly introducing new exercises and ways of doing them. Because participants are challenged and pushed in new ways every day, they achieve an all-around fitness that makes F3 guys supremely fit for endurance challenges, including mud runs, obstacle races, triathlons, marathons, long-distance relays and all manner of other adventure challenges.
F3 Southside workouts take place at publicly accessible venues, including school campuses and churches — even in parking lots!
And while the vast majority of F3 workouts launch before the sun is up — largely because that’s the time of day when F3 guys can be most certain of being able to control their schedules.
Fellowship
It’s easy to get someone out for a free workout — we call it putting the “Emotional Headlock” on a guy. But for more than 90% of F3 guys, the reason they keep coming back, setting their alarm for 4:45 or 5 a.m. three, four or five days a week is the friendships that are built in what we call “the Gloom.”
There’s something special about pushing through a brutal beatdown with another guy. We encourage those bonds by closing every workout with what we call the “CoT” (Circle of Trust). Every guy gives his birth name, his F3 nickname and his age. Even if you’re brand-new (what we call an FNG, or Friendly New Guy), we’ll slap you with an F3 nickname — the stupider and more insulting, the better — so we can remember who you are the next time you post.
We reinforce the Second F through organized F3 participation in physical challenges like obstacle races, mud runs, distance relay races, GORUCK events and other adventures (we’ve found that, in general, the more Completely Stupid And Utterly Pointless — or “CSAUP” — an event is, the more enthusiastic F3 guys are about it).
Faith
At F3, we recognize that we are more than just physical beings. Physical fitness important, but it is a man’s spiritual health that truly determines his impact. We want to see men grow holistically…mind, body and soul. Part of how we pursue the Third F together is to close each workout with a Circle of Trust (COT).
The COT is a platform for the man leading the workout, we call this guy the “Q”, to share something that has been stirring him or challenging him to be a better husband, father, friend and neighbor. This is immediately followed by the Ball of Man (BOM), which is a brief prayer or “shout-out” led by the Q or one of the participants the Q designates. Men are free to pray to their god or to speak from a secular perspective.
F3 is open to men of all faiths and no faith, and the closing shout-out is generally the only faith-specific component of a workout. We do it because we are thankful for the opportunity to come together and build ourselves into better men, and because the vocal and corporate expression of that gratitude builds a stronger F3 community.
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