Millions are diagnosed with cancer and chronic health issues every year
As a health and fitness professional, you can fill an immense need by helping those at high risk with preventative exercise and by improving health during and after medical treatment
100 million at high risk for chronic disease in the USA
32 million cancer survivors worldwide
Learn about 27 cancer types
Get business and branding coaching to get new clients and medical referrals
#1 Oncology Exercise Educator in the world
THE EXERCISE NEED
As a health and fitness professional you have an unprecedented opportunity to help millions who need guidance with exercise and create a niche market for yourself.
Become the local expert, plus learn how to virtually train those with
compromised immune systems who cannot go to a clinic or health club.
Expand your reach around the world.
Exercise and physical activity is one of the best tools to boost health, improve life expectancy and reduce treatment side effects.
– There is a reason for the creation of the term “Exercise is Medicine” –
HOW EXERCISE CHANGES LIVES
PREVENTION
Improve overall health and reduce cancer risk factors
DURING TREATMENT
Help patients throughout treatment and reduce severity of side effects
AFTER TREATMENT
Minimize chance of recurrence
Mitigate acute and chronic side effects of treatment
Speed recovery from surgery
Increase life expectancy and enhance quality of life
HEALTH BENEFITS
A safe, customized and effective exercise program helps clients experience…
LESS
Depression, Anxiety, Pain, Injury, Fatigue, Disease Recurrence
BETTER
Coping, Strength, Energy, Endurance, Mobility, Sleep Quality, Ease in Activities of Daily Living, Functional Movement, Range of Motion, Posture, Balance
THE OPPORTUNITY
Cancer patients, survivors, and those with chronic health risks are less active than the general population
They all want and need help when it comes to exercise
But there is a severe lack of health & fitness professionals who have the expertise required to support cancer patients and older adults with chronic conditions
This is because working with chronic conditions, cancer patients & survivors requires a much more knowledgeable and customized approach
If you’ve ever considered working with the cancer and aging population, perhaps you’ve wondered:
What credentials do I need to work with special needs clients?
What are the liabilities?
What are the recommendations and guidelines for working with cancer survivors and those with chronic conditions?
How can I customize those guidelines to work for each client?
What are the risks I need to be aware of?
How do I conduct an effective assessment before we begin?
What do I need to know about each type of cancer or condition?
How will current treatments affect my recommendations?
What is appropriate at different stages of the cancer and chronic disease journey?
How can I help my clients build healthy habits & exercise behaviors that stick?
Don’t take unnecessary risks with cancer patients/survivors and clients with chronic conditions. Let us provide you with the most current and evidence-based education to create safe and effective action plans.
You will get the tools, confidence and support of the global leader in oncology exercise education
(From prevention, to treatment and recovery, and long-term survivorship)
Andrea Leonard
Founder and President of the Cancer Exercise Training Institute
“Andrea knew that her calling in life was to help make a difference in the lives of cancer patients worldwide.” – E.G. Beres
Andrea is a 41 year cancer survivor, has authored 20 books on the subject of cancer and exercise and is a sought after speaker, author and educator for cancer exercise training around the world.
Andrea received her MS in Functional Nutrition from the Rocky Mountain University of Health Professionals, was the PFP/Club Industry 2019 Personal Trainer of the Year and has 34 years worth of career certifications from NASM, ACSM, ACE and the Cooper Institute. She is a subject matter expert for the Medical Wellness Association, chairperson for the Medical Fitness Foundation Education Advisory Board, and advisory board member for the MedFit Network.
The Cancer Exercise Training Institute is considered the gold-standard of education in oncology exercise and has trained more individuals than any other organization in the world.
CETI IS RECOGNIZED BY
THE SIMPLE FACTS
CETI is the global leader in oncology exercise training over the past 20 years, training over 18,000 professionals in 55 countries.
How CETI Courses Work
We provide online courses developed specifically for health & fitness professionals who want to work with cancer and high risk populations.
Comprehensive books, video training, quizzes and exams. Online, virtual and live course options.
Email/ phone support with optional one-on-one sessions and business support.
Regularl updates with peer-reviewed and evidence-based information.
As an OncoVie™ Cancer Exercise Specialist you will possess practical hands-on skills needed to guide clients, patients and survivors through treatment, recovery and long term survivorship – you will become the next step in the health care continuum.
Andrea Leonard is the Founder and President of the Cancer Exercise Training Institute
“Andrea knew that her calling in life was to help make a difference in the lives of cancer patients worldwide.” – E.G. Beres
Andrea received her BA from the University of MD in 1990 and her MS from the Rocky Mountain University of Health Professionals in 2023. She was the PFP/Club Industry 2019 Personal Trainer of the Year. Since 1992 Andrea has been certified as a Corrective Exercise Specialist and Performance Enhancement Specialist by The National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM), as a Personal Trainer by The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM), and the American Council on Exercise (ACE), as a Special Populations Expert by The Cooper Institute.
Andrea is a subject matter expert for Medical Wellness Association, chairperson for the Medical Fitness Foundation Education Advisory Board and on the advisory board for the MedFit Network .
Andrea is a 41-year cancer survivor and has/had 24 first-degree relatives diagnosed with cancer. In 2014 she lost her father, Morton, to complications of bladder cancer and prostate cancer, and myelodysplastic syndrome. Her mother is currently fighting stage 4 metastatic breast cancer after a 23-year remission.
A Personal Journey
At the age of eighteen, Andrea was diagnosed with thyroid cancer and underwent a complete thyroidectomy and radioactive iodine treatment. Following her surgery, Andrea was challenged with a new, sluggish metabolism, and weight gain. It was through her own personal struggles to regain her previous energy level and physique that Andrea decided to become a personal trainer. She wanted to be able to help others, like herself, who struggled with the same issues of weight gain and poor self-esteem. Andrea graduated from the University of MD in 1990 with a degree in Criminal Justice, but quickly realized that she was in the wrong profession. She avidly pursued a career as a personal trainer.
Andrea began training in 1992 and worked at the National Capital YMCA in Washington, D.C. She quickly worked her way up to Director of Personal Training and ran the department for several years. While working at the YMCA, Andrea started Leading Edge Fitness and EMPOWER- Energizing, Mobilizing, Post-Operative Workout Enhancing Recovery. In 1996 Andrea’s mom was diagnosed for the second time with breast cancer. She watched her mother struggle through the trauma of multiple surgeries, reconstruction, a frozen shoulder, and addiction to narcotics in order to cope with the pain associated with her surgeries.
Inspired by her mother, Andrea, along with a medical advisory board from Georgetown University, George Washington University, and Johns’ Hopkins University Medical Centers, set out to write “Essential Exercises for Breast Cancer Survivors.” The goal was to help the millions of men and women, like her mother, to gain back their strength, range of motion, and self-esteem (among other things), following breast cancer surgery and treatment. The book was published by Harvard Common Press in 2000. Shortly thereafter, Andrea founded The Breast Cancer Survivor’s Foundation, a 501c3 public charity—to better the lives of cancer survivors and their families.
Realizing that she is limited to helping a certain number of clients per week, Andrea founded The Cancer Exercise Training Institute in 2004 and developed the OncoVie™ Cancer Exercise Specialist coursework for health and fitness professionals. Through this program she has been able to pass on her wealth of knowledge, and enable health and fitness professionals around the world, to work safely and confidently with cancer patients.
Through CETI’s OncoVie™ Cancer Exercise Specialist workshops and home-study, participants learn about twenty six types of cancer and pediatrics, their surgeries, treatments, lymphedema identification, prevention, and treatment, reconstructive procedures, contraindications, side-effects and so much more. Following a comprehensive examination, attendees are awarded the OncoVie™ Cancer Exercise Specialist Advanced Qualification.
Andrea has presented the OncoVie™ Cancer Exercise Specialist workshop around the world and has been a guest speaker at IDEA World, Healthy Aging Summit, Asia Fitness Conference, CPTN Personal Training Conference, IRHSA, TSI Summit, Medical Fitness Tour, Kaiser Permanente Thriving with Cancer Conference, Winona State University – Survivors Unite, McHenry Community College, New York Institute of Technology, OHSU School of Nursing, Edwards Hospital, Georgetown University Hospital, Suburban/Johns’ Hopkins, Mennonite Cancer Foundation, South Georgia Medical Center, Cary Medical Center Lynchburg General Hospital, Chesapeake Regional Medical Center, Sibley Hospital, Memorial Hermann, Sandford Health System, Avera McKennan Prairie Cancer Center, Baptist Hospital East, Patricia Neal Rehab. Center, St. Mary’s, Baptist Health System, Southeast Georgia Cancer Coalition, and Fort Bliss Army Installation.
Andrea has written 17 books on the subject of cancer and exercise and is a sought after speaker and author. She will complete her Master’s in Functional Nutrition from Rocky Mountain University of Health Professionals in the summer of 2023. She has contributed to PFP Magazine, ACE Certified, ACE Blog, NOU Magazine, Club Solutions Magazine, Bethesda Today, Capital Gazette, NASM’s Training Edge Magazine, Lake Oswego Review, Portland Tribune, The Oregonian, The Tidings inHealthOhio Blog and News, Capital Style, The Examiner, The Washington Post, Dallas Morning News, 4Wholeness.com, SpecialFit, and has appeared in countless videos including the Heartflex Breast Cancer Recovery video and been a regular fitness expert on AMNW.
The Cancer Exercise Training Institute is considered the gold-standard of education in oncology exercise and has trained more individuals than any other organization in the world.
Upon completion you’ll receive an Advanced Qualification certificate that can be renewed every 2 years with the latest training materials.
ADD MORE TO YOUR QUALIFICATIONS WITH CETI
OncoVie™ Breast Cancer Recovery BOSU® Specialist
OncoVie™ Pilates Mat Certificate
OncoVie™ Cancer Exercise Specialist – Yoga
OncoVie™ Cancer Exercise Specialist – Pilates
OncoVie™ Cancer Recovery Specialist (coming in 2025)
Here's what you will learn in the OncoVie™ Cancer Exercise Specialist ›Advanced Qualification
GETTING STARTED
Course introductions from Dr. Harness and Dr. Mikeska with a review of the curriculum and successful study methods.
MODULE 1
Get an in-depth look at the most common surgical procedures for 26 of the most common cancer types, as well as pediatrics. Experience a video-based session, as well as a comprehensive manual, on the subject matter. Gain a deeper insight into acute and chronic side-effects and contraindications of surgical procedures, cancer staging, genetics, and the human biome/immune system. Experience a video-introduction and welcome from Dr. Jay Harness and a video by Dr. La Gary Carter on “Exercise as Medicine” as well as a comprehensive manual and practice test on the subject matter.
- What is cancer?
- Cancer causes
- Genetics
- 5 stages of grief
- What to say to someone who has been diagnosed with cancer
- The role of a CES in palliative care
- Being a caregiver
- The Immune System and human biome
- Surgery types for 27 cancers – acute and chronic side-effects
- Contraindications
MODULE 2
Learn about risk factors for breast cancer, recommended surgeries, treatment, and reconstruction as well as side-effects/complications, and lymphedema prevention and management. Experience video-based sessions by Denise Stewart, OT, on scar tissue awareness, Upper and lower extremity lymph drainage exercise programming by Andrea Leonard, and Cancer and Comorbidities by Dr. Dan Mikeska, as well as a comprehensive manual and practice test on the subject matter.
- Types of breast cancer
- Risk factors
- Breast surgery and reconstruction
- Axillary web syndrome
- Cancer Treatment – acute and chronic side-effects
- Neurological complications
- Lymphedema – prevention, identification, and management
- Mindful breathing
MODULE 3
Learn how to conduct a postural assessment, goniometric measurements, and several other testing methods. Determine individualized programming based on range of motion limitations, postural deviations, and acute and chronic side-effects. Use manual stretching techniques to help with muscle imbalances and range of motion limitations. Techniques for core strengthening, proprioception and balance. Video sessions on assessment protocol. Comprehensive manual and practice test for the subject matter.
- Posture, pain and muscle imbalance
- Conducting a comprehensive assessment
- Correcting muscle imbalances and exercise programming
- Cardiorespiratory fitness and exercise intensity
- Common side-effects, complications, and recommendations
- How to use a goniometer
- Correcting range of motion limitations and exercise programming
- Core and balance exercises
- Manual stretching techniques
MODULE 4
Gain critical knowledge about how a properly prescribed and executed exercise program can help cancer patients and survivors to combat fatigue, decrease depression and pain, and how diet can play a critical role in treatment as well as long-term survivorship. Includes “Conquering Cancer with Nutrition,” by Dr. Glenn B. Gero. Video discussion with Dr. Tami De La Melena. Comprehensive manual and practice test.
- Benefits of Exercise
- Cancer Related Pain
- Mental and Physical Fatigue
- Survivorship
- Psychology of Fitness
- Cancer Treatment and Weight management
- Alcohol and Cancer Risk
- Conquering Cancer with Nutrition
- Taking Control of Your Emotions
- Working with Medical Community
- Business coaching (LIVE virtual sessions)
RESOURCES
Forms to help you build your business, creating your CETI CES listing, customized exercise programming services, support groups and more. Individual business coaching and branding is provided in the LIVE virtual training sessions.
“This is a pioneering concept by Andrea and CETI. The whole concept of taking health and fitness professionals and giving them additional training to become legitimate specialists in the care and treatment of cancer patients is a unique and valuable program. I’ve gone through the modules and they are outstanding. In my world of breast cancer, people with this level of cancer exercise training are really needed.”
-Dr. Jay Harness
Learn to Provide Virtual Client Sessions
Learn how to virtually train those with compromised immune systems who cannot go to a clinic or health club. Help them in the comfort of their own homes. Expand your reach around the world!
Here is what is also included with your enrollment
PDF Handbooks
Business Tools
Directory Listing
Private FB Group
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SEE WHAT OUR GRADUATES HAVE TO SAY
“Thank you CETI Andrea for this outstanding advance certification. I am delighted to announce that I have successfully passed the examination and obtained the OncoVie™ Cancer Exercise Specialist Advanced Qualification with CETI. I hold a Master’s degree in exercise physiology, along with certifications in ACSM-EP, CPT, FMS, and USAW-L1.
Now, as an OncoVie™ Cancer Exercise Specialist at Ultra SV Wellness & Performance Center in Colorado Springs, we are proud to offer personalized exercise training programs that include neurocognitive exercise training focusing on memory, reaction time, concentration, eye-hand coordination, and more, all within a supportive, fun and enjoyable private wellness center.”
– Samuel Oketunmbi
“As a survivor myself, I understand what it is like to have everything stripped down and begin the process of having to re-find yourself. My passion is to help patients restore the best in themselves and find their new NORMAL.”
– Cindy Lupica
“I recently completed the Cancer Exercise Specialist course. I would highly recommend this course to anyone who is interested in learning how to serve cancer patients/survivors. The information and knowledge, along with the guidance and support you will receive is invaluable. I can honestly say since completing this course, I feel well prepared and excited to start empowering those who have been affected by cancer. Thank you Andrea and the team at CETI.”
– Maurice Crocker, CPT, CES, Showtime Physique Personal Training and Fitness Studio
ENROLL TODAY TO GET INSTANT ACCESS TO:
4 online training modules with over 40 videos
Video lectures from 6 top professionals in oncology and exercise
Printable handbooks and training materials
Over 500 pages of materials
Quizzes for each module to assist your learning
Detailed case studies to help you assess clients
Cancer Exercise Specialist Advanced Qualification
Certificate upon passing the final exam
CETI team for questions and support
Private Facebook group to interact with fellow specialists
Access to exclusive programs to help you grow your business
“Cancer strips you of everything: hair, body, self-esteem, self confidence, finances, family… as a Cancer Exercise Specialist you have the unique opportunity to help people take control of their lives and bodies at a time where they feel they have no control.”
– Andrea Leonard –
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