Director

Adventure Experts

Star Barn B & B

Inn & Spa at Cedar Falls

Meet Margaret
Stepping Up and Out Adventure Team

Margaret works with Stepping Up and Out to develop specialized fitness programs, including a dynamic warm- up for hiking and/or snowshoeing and often joins Patty on trips in Ohio.

Margaret Hofmann-Nein, MEd, is the Owner and Director of Female Athletes First (FAF) in Columbus, Ohio. She is a 16-year Fitness industry veteran, a certified Personal Trainer, through the American Council on Exercise (ACE) and an IDEA health and fitness association Masters member with specialty certificates in golf conditioning, SPARQ and AQR training and postural analysis. She has established herself as a fitness industry leader and expert in issues facing the female athlete. She is a master strength and performance coach and mentor who trains female athletes for improved performance and injury prevention.

Margaret holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Sports Sciences from Morehead State University in Morehead, Kentucky and Xavier University in Cincinnati. She has trained clients and directed athlete development training programs in all types of sports clubs, corporate fitness centers and performance centers.  In addition to her fitness experience, Margaret and her husband Todd are also active in the outdoors and especially enthusiastic kayakers. You can catch Margaret training her athletes and general fitness clients at the Wyandotte Athletic Club in Columbus, where she lives with Todd and their six-year-old daughter. Visit her at www.femaleathletesfirst.com.