F3 Lexicon

Short for One-Thousand Words.

To be Effective, a Team must be Proximate, Purposeful and Periodic.

Strength, Speed, Stamina, Toughness (physical) and Toughness (mental).

An invitation to The Nation from a Region or Nomad to Post to a Workout.

Building a Leadership Road forty-three feet ahead of the people driving on it.

The Q''s Delegation of every Task that a Team Member can do 80% as well as he can, except that 1% that absolutely and positively must be done by him.

Short for After Action Report

Short for Always Be Headlocking.

To increase the pace of Movement.

A man committed to Acceleration.

Ability to maintain energy throughout a work day due to the extended adrenaline release as a direct result of accomplishing the early morning workout.

Submission to Standard through Enforcement and Consequence. (Q2.5).

Setting and maintaining high Standards within the Team. (Q4.8).

An Organization''s undisclosed but primary goal.

A superior circumstance achieved by Movement.

A challenge to Acceleration created by Obstacles.

A brief review of what took place after an Event of some kind (workout, GrowRuck, etc.), particularly regarding leadership displayed by a Q during sai...

Short for Also Known As.

Short for Ask-Listen-Remember.

An alternative name for a man, a place or a thing. Abbr: AKA.

A Q''s determination to never miss an opportunity to transform a Sad Clown into an FNG. Abbr: ABH.

The portion of the day between midnight and noon when most of what is going to get done does get done.

A man ruled by emotional reaction rather proactive Preparedness.

The stage of the COT during which the PAX dispense G2 to the Faithful.

Short for Area Of Operations.

When a PAX hard commits to an AO, then posts elsewhere. While considered better than fartsacking altogether, it is still a dubious practice.

When a PAX wakes up, dressed and walks out to the car to post...but is blocked in by visiting family

Any winding, gloomy and dangerous trail through the woods, best run at an ankle-breaker pace.

The phase of an LDP within which Positive Habit Transfer takes place. (Q4.3).

The geographical location at which an Event takes place. Abbr: AO.

The forceful juxtaposition of opposing viewpoints in order to Persuade.

The primary Advantage sought by a Team or Organization.

Describing Vision to others. (Q3.5).

The method by which the Q builds Trust with his Group Members. He asks questions, listens to the answer and remembers what he hears. Abbr: ALR.

I agree.

A written account of a Workout or Event that the Q Posts to a public forum. Abbr: BB.

Congregation of two or more men in physical contact, usually (but not exclusively) in the prayer that terminates the COT. Abbr: BOM.

Those PAX prone to demonstrative celebration of their rebellion against Institutional or cultural orthodoxy.

Short for BackBlast.

A millennial with a beard.

A very difficult Workout delivered by a Q with Zeal.

The conviction that there is a supernatural governing force outside of oneself that provides an ordered explanation for our existence and delivers con...

The Earth. More generally, that which can be seen rather than that which comprises the Super Unknown.

(v) getting run from an AO by a security guard or EE of said AO. Used in a sentence, ''BV, I''ve got some bad news, we got Black Miata''d at Lord Kens...

Thriving in the chaos of the unpredictable.

Removing a man from a position in which he cannot Prosper.

A Workout so tough it leaves the PAX standing there looking backward half-unconscious from the Pain.

A man who is Sharpened by another man within a Whetstone relationship.

An area of a man''s life that he cannot protect without help.

An attempt by Governance to initiate Movement by fiat.

The choice of the easy-false life of a Mascot over the hard-true life of the HIM.