Your first workout

Four steps

No sign-up. No cost. No experience needed. Just show up.

1. 1

   Pick an AO

   An AO is a workout group and the place it meets. Pick a day and an AO from the schedule. A bootcamp makes the best first workout.

   See the schedule
2. 2

   Show up 10 minutes early

   Wear what you'd wear to work in the yard. Bring water, and gloves if you have them. Tell any of the men it's your first time, and someone will look after you from there.

3. 3

   Do what you can

   Every workout is open to all comers. Change any exercise, rest when you need to and don't worry about keeping up. Nobody gets left behind.

4. 4

   Get your F3 name

   Every workout ends in the Circle of Trust (COT). The men will ask you a few questions and give you your F3 name. It's yours for good. You don't get a vote.

Speak F3

F3 has its own words. These will get you through your first workout.

AO

Area of Operations. A workout group and the place it meets.

Post

To show up for a workout.

PAX

The men of F3. You, soon.

Q

The man leading that day's workout. It rotates. One day it'll be you.

Beatdown

The workout itself. It is what it sounds like.

The gloom

The dark before dawn, when we work out.

COT

Circle of Trust. How every workout ends: a count, names, announcements and a prayer or shout-out.

FNG

Friendly New Guy. A man at his first workout, before he's named.

HIM

High Impact Man. What F3 sets out to build.

Sad Clown

A man drifting through life on autopilot. F3 is the cure.

Mumblechatter

The banter that gets you through the burpees.

Coffeeteria

Coffee and talk after the workout. Fellowship, the second F.