David Redding, known as Dredd, is one of the founders of F3, a fitness, fellowship, and faith movement built around free, peer-led outdoor workouts for men. On this episode of the Tom Rowland Podcast, Dredd joins Tom to talk about how F3 works from the inside, the culture and vocabulary that has grown up around it, and why leadership and fitness end up being the same conversation once you get men outside and moving together.
David Redding, known by his F3 nickname Dredd, is one of the people who helped start F3, a fitness, fellowship, and faith movement built around free outdoor workouts for men.
F3 stands for fitness, fellowship, and faith. It is a network of small, free, peer-led outdoor workout groups for men that has spread into communities across the country.
The Q is the term F3 uses for whoever is leading a given workout. Leading, or \"cueing,\" a workout for the first time is considered a milestone in F3 culture, since standing in front of a group and directing them is very different from being one of the group.
It is F3 slang for the possibility of throwing up during a hard workout, used half-jokingly to warn newcomers that the workouts can be intense, especially for their first one.
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Dredd was on my initial guest list when I started this podcast. Fishing, leadership, and fitness are three things I talk about constantly on this show, and F3 sits right at the intersection of leadership and fitness in a way I wanted to understand better, straight from one of the people who helped build it.
Dredd walks through what F3 calls the first bell — showing up to your first workout — and how shocking that can be if you have not been active. The way F3 uses that shared discomfort to build something bigger than a workout is worth hearing him explain directly.
The second bell in F3 culture is the first time you lead, or cue, a workout yourself. Dredd talks about why that moment matters so much in F3, and how leading a group you were just part of changes how you see leadership.
This conversation covered more fitness and leadership philosophy than almost any other episode I have done, and Dredd made all of it practical rather than abstract. Press play above to hear the rest.
David \"Dredd\" Redding, F3.
David Redding, known as Dredd, is one of the founders of F3, a fitness, fellowship, and faith movement built around free, peer-led outdoor workouts for men.
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