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.

[3] F3 is affiliated with FiA, or Females in Action, a network of free, peer-led workouts for women.

[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.

For example, an informal group leader is known as a "Nantan," a term adopted from an Apache word meaning chief.