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
The F3 name is an initialism, which stands for fitness, fellowship and faith, referring to the group's three organizing principles.
F3 has 5 "Core Principles" for their workouts.
<ol type="1"> <li>Be free of charge.</li> <li>Be open to all men.</li> <li>Be held outdoors, rain or shine, heat or cold.</li> <li>Be led by men who participate in the workout in a rotating fashion, with no training or certification necessary.</li> <li>End with a Circle of Trust.</li> </ol>
F3 is affiliated with FiA, or Females in Action, a network of free, peer-led workouts for women.
Each man participating in an F3 workout is assigned a nickname which he'll use during subsequent workouts.
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.
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.