Lifestyle Fitness Africa

Stronger people.
Greater possibilities.

A Gym Where Everyone Belongs.

Lifestyle Fitness Africa brings people together through accessible, enjoyable movement. With strength training, cardio, group classes and personal coaching, we help every generation build healthier habits, grow in confidence and make fitness part of everyday life.

Join LFA

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Alllevels welcome

Find your rhythm.

Strength
Cardio
Community
Coaching
Energy

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Life at LFA

Shared energy.
Personal progress.

A strong routine starts with a place you want to return to. Move with the LFA community, at your own level.

Find your way to train

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Fitness with fun

More movement.
More connection.

Strength, cardio, group classes and personal training. Different ways to move, with one place to belong.

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The LFA community together on the gym floor — A Gym Where Everyone Belongs.

Our mission

Build Africa’s
fitness culture.

Make fitness a source of health, belonging and opportunity—starting in Rwanda and growing across Africa.

We bring people together through accessible, enjoyable movement. Our purpose is to help every generation build healthier habits and make fitness part of everyday life.

We aim to develop talent, open pathways into fitness careers and build partnerships that strengthen the sports sector. The ambition is lasting impact: stronger communities and more opportunity.

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At LFAStrength equipmentCardio machinesGroup-class areaWi-FiPersonal training

The people behind LFA

Our founders.

A shared purpose: make fitness a force for health, community and opportunity.

LFA Founder

Dianne Schommer-Uwamahoro

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Leading LFA’s operations, coach development and member experience since inception.

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Dianne Schommer-Uwamahoro founded Lifestyle Fitness Africa and has led it as Chief Executive Officer since inception, bringing fifteen years as a certified group fitness, Zumba® and Jumping® instructor in Switzerland and native Kinyarwanda and English alongside four further languages. She opened the centre in March 2020, one week before Rwanda’s first national lockdown, and has since built it to approximately 500 members and a team of six, introduced more than 25 coaches into the Rwandan fitness sector—several now managing gyms of their own—and established Jumping® Fitness in the country as its official representative. In LFA 2.0 she carries operations, coach recruitment and development and the member experience, together with the institutional client relationships that anchor the business, including national security, public health and regulatory bodies. Her ambition is a wellness offer Rwanda’s middle class can genuinely reach, with at least 60 percent women participating and a professional career pipeline for young Rwandan women behind it.

Relevant experience & qualifications

Certified Aerobics Instructor, Aerobics and Fitness Association of America
Zumba® Basic, Gold and Toning instructor certifications, Zumba Fitness (United States)
Official Jumping® Instructor (Bern, 2017) and the format’s official representative in Rwanda
Fifteen years of group fitness instruction across Swiss centres, including Swisscom’s corporate employee fitness programme
Certified Nursing Assistant and Home Health Aide; former medical interpreter
Opened and sustained a Kigali fitness business through the pandemic; more than 25 coaches introduced to the Rwandan sector
English, Kinyarwanda, German, Swiss German, Swahili and Luganda

LFA co-founder

Marco Robert Schommer

Co-Founder and Chairman

Leading LFA’s strategy, partnerships and long-term growth.

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Marco Schommer co-founded Lifestyle Fitness Africa, chairs its board and serves as Vice President of the Rwanda Fitness Association, bringing an ETH Zürich MSc and two decades of senior international leadership—a EUR 25 million global P&L at Bulgari and the chief executive role at WOSTEP, Switzerland’s worldwide watchmaking school—to Rwanda’s preventive-health market. Swiss and Rwandan, he has since built accredited training institutions in Kigali from a standing start, registering the entities, raising seed and bridge capital, and taking them to operating capability. He now leads LFA 2.0, a purpose-built 2,040 m² campus structured as a 25-year public-private partnership with IPRC Kigali, and the LFA Coach Academy behind Rwanda’s first insurer-recognised preventive-health standard. The ambition is a lighthouse model built to replicate across Rwanda and the wider East African market.

Relevant experience & qualifications

MSc in Management, Technology and Economics, ETH Zürich
EUR 25 million global service P&L and a 35-person team, Bulgari Global Operations
Chief Executive Officer, WOSTEP—Switzerland’s worldwide watchmaking school, coordinating 15 partner schools
Founding Managing Director of a Kigali training institute: entity registration, USD 132,000 in seed grants closed, USD 46,000 in bridge financing mobilised, ERP and financial controls deployed
Eight Level-3 TVET curricula converted to the Swiss dual-training model for Swisscontact in Rwanda and DR Congo
Investment due-diligence lead on a factory restart in Mozambique—100-page board report, 40 findings, conditional recommendation
English, French and German at full professional proficiency

Your training, your choice

What’s your focus?

Choose a pathway. We’ll help you take the next step.

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Your starting point

Build your strength.

Make room for strength in your routine. Explore LFA’s strength equipment and ask the team about getting started at your level.

Get started

Membership

Choose your
way to move.

Choose regular or student access, a flexible punch card, or discuss personal training with a coach during your visit.

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Jumping & gym

Regular access

4,500 FRW One-day pass

1 month40,000 FRW

3 months95,000 FRW

6 months170,000 FRW

12 months270,000 FRW

Choose regular

Student rate

Jumping & gym

Student access

3,500 FRW One-day pass

1 month35,000 FRW

3 months85,000 FRW

6 months160,000 FRW

12 months255,000 FRW

Choose student

Aerobics • Zumba • Gym

20-day punch card

60,000 FRW Valid for three months

A flexible 20-day punch card covering aerobics, Zumba and gym access.

Get a punch card

Focused support

Personal training

Discuss at the gym Plan agreed with your coach

Visit LFA and speak with a coach about your goals, a suitable training plan and pricing.

Plan your visit

All listed prices are shown in Rwandan francs (FRW). Personal-training plans and prices are discussed with a coach during your gym visit.

Weekly group classes

Move through
the week.

Classes run Monday–Friday. Saturdays and Sundays are open to any activity.

Monday