F3 Monroe Launch

F3 Union first began in Indian Trail and steadily moved South and West from there. We then launched F3 Anson. In between sits the county seat so it’s time to give it away to Monroe.

What: F3 stands for Fitness, Fellowship and Faith. It is a peer-led boot camp style workout.

When: This Saturday (10/8) at 7 AM

Where: Belk-Tonawanda Park

Who: All men are invited regardless of current physical condition. You don’t get in shape to come to F3, you come to F3 to get in shape. If an exercise is too difficult, you are free to modify to another. If you need to take a minute to recover, there will not be a clipboard carrying meathead screaming at you. You’ll find F3 truly means it when we say ‘No man left behind.’

How much: $0. Core value of F3 is these are always free workouts.

Why: This is the important part. The why of F3 often starts out for men as an opportunity to get in better shape. It will be tough as it is a boot camp style workout with rotating members of the group leading the workouts. So, each workout can be completely different than the one before and will test your endurance as it isn’t a ‘Do 10 reps and rest’ workout. Nothing wrong with that but that’s not what F3 is. The challenge of a tough workout is what we call the First F or Fitness. After posting at a F3 workout for a while, men start to build friendships with the other guys at F3 as there is something about suffering together that builds friendships. Those friendships then become what brings men out workout after workout. This is the Second F or Fellowship. And from there, the question starts to become, what can I do with these guys to help the world around us? This is the F3 view of Faith or the Third F. It’s a view of ‘I’m not the center of the universe. There is something greater than me at work.’ These combine to make F3 or Fitness, Fellowship and Faith.

What you’ll need: A pair of exercise gloves and exercise clothes.

So you now have all the details as well as the purpose. From here, it’s up to you to show up. I can promise you this, there is not much greater satisfaction than that moment when time is called and you’ve made it through. The main verse behind F3 that you’ll hear often and see in practice at workouts is Proverbs 27:17 – As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. Let this Saturday begin the sharpening process.

Glass Joe