{"id":1679,"date":"2017-07-19T03:13:48","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T03:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/?page_id=1679"},"modified":"2025-01-12T18:16:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T22:16:44","slug":"threefs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/threefs\/","title":{"rendered":"The Three Fs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Three Fs<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

F3 gets it’s name from the three things that are central to what we’re all about: Fitness<\/strong>, Fellowship<\/strong>, and Faith<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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The First “F”: Fitness<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Our workouts are open to men of all fitness levels and are organized to keep the entire group together while ensuring a thorough 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 \u2014 \u201cQs,\u201d in F3 lingo \u2014 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.<\/span><\/p>\n

While the classic F3 workout requires no equipment other than workout clothes, gravity and the great outdoors, our growth has allowed regional leaders to introduce specialized workouts, including bike rides, gear-focused workouts that include kettlebells and other heavy metal, track workouts for runners and trail runs.<\/span><\/p>\n

F3 workouts take place at publicly accessible venues, including parks, school campuses, churches \u2014 even in parking lots! Visit the F3Nation website<\/a> for some exercise examples and ideas of what you might see when you workout with us!<\/span><\/p>\n

And while the vast majority of F3 workouts launch before the sun is up \u2014 largely because that\u2019s the time of day when F3 guys can be most certain of being able to control their schedules \u2014 F3 Winston-Salem offers evening workouts too, check out the calendar for details.<\/a><\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_column_text css=””]<\/p>\n

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The Second “F”: Fellowship<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

It\u2019s easy to get someone out for a free workout \u2014 we call it putting the \u201cEmotional Headlock\u201d 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 \u201cthe Gloom.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

There\u2019s something special about pushing through a brutal smokefest with another guy. We encourage those bonds by closing every workout with what we call the \u201cCoT\u201d (Circle of Trust)<\/strong>. Every guy gives his birth name, his F3 nickname and his age. Even if you\u2019re brand-new (what we call an FNG, or Friendly New Guy), we\u2019ll slap you with an F3 nickname \u2014 the stupider and more insulting, the better \u2014 so we can remember who you are the next time you post.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u2019ve found that, in general, the more Completely Stupid And Utterly Pointless \u2014 or \u201cCSAUP\u201d \u2014 an event is, the more enthusiastic F3 guys are about it). Many regions have regularly scheduled weekly happy hours, as well as other Second F events for couples and families.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_column_text css=””]<\/p>\n

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The Third “F”: Faith<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

We close each CoT with a brief \u201cshout-out\u201d led by one of the participants. Men are free to pray to their god or to speak from a secular perspective \u2014 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.<\/span><\/p>\n

Outside of the workouts, we have found that many F3 participants, after getting in the best physical shape of their adult lives and meeting their social needs for the first time as adults, start taking a more serious approach to questions of meaning and purpose. Many F3 workouts have spawned Bible studies, attendance at speaker series and other Third F initiatives. We encourage those efforts as supplements to the workouts and an important way for F3 participants to exercise leadership in their families and communities.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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