Maple Tree Cancer Alliance exists to improve the quality of lives of individuals who battle cancer. We accomplish this through individualized, supervised exercise. The mission of the Exercise Oncology Instructor (EOI) certification is to prepare and qualify health professionals to plan and implement safe and effective exercise programs for individuals who are battling cancer. The EOI develops and administers whole body exercises designed to enhance cardiorespiratory fitness, body composition, muscular strength and endurance, and flexibility. In addition, the EOI encourages exercise adherence to help improve health-related physical fitness and manage disease.

Those pursuing the EOI certification are exercise physiologists and/or qualified professionals. You must have a Bachelor’s degree in Exercise Science, or related, or be within 180 days of graduating with this degree. The purpose of the EOI certification is to ensure that certificants have a baseline knowledge of exercise physiology in a healthy population. MTCA’s training materials and workshop will teach the exercise professional to design safe and effective individualized exercises for an individual who is undergoing treatment for cancer. Those who pass the certification will be issued the mark of Certified Exercise Oncology Instructor.