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| Publisher: Weider Publications, Inc.
List Price: $47.88
Buy New: $15.97
You Save: $31.91 (67%)
Rating:  59 reviews
Sales Rank: 122
Format: Magazine Subscription
Type: Consumer magazine
Subscription Issues: 12
Subscription Length: 12 Months
Issues Per Year: 12
First Issue Lead Time: 6-10 Weeks
ASIN: B00005N7SN
Release Date: November 23, 2001
Availability: Usually ships in 1 to 3 months
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| Customer Reviews:
 Good if you like to Pretend your athletic November 28, 2001
Book Diva (OR United States)
17 out of 22 found this review helpful
Shape Magazine is a joke. This magazine has more make-up tips, clothing and weight watcher success stories than anything about atheletes. I found this magazine dissapointing- not only do most of the models look like they couldn't run a mile without dropping from anoreixa but the stories are hipocritical (accept yourself and love your body; while the follow article is how to lose weight for thanksgiving and impress your x)
 Exclusion October 24, 2002
Aimee Thomson (Canada)
17 out of 30 found this review helpful
I am very diappointed to say that I chose your magazine to do a project that entailed a review. I was a little upset to realize that your target audience is white, young, upper-class, skinny women. The month of March 2002 only features 2 or 3 black women and a few women of other races, and one overweight woman (and that was to feature a success story). This is a joke, have you looked out the door lately? You can't exclude the diversity of races and sizes because you feel like it and throw one or two into the hundreds of women who portray the "perfect image", just so that you appear to be unbias. I regret to inform you that if I don't see a difference in your magazine I will be unable to support it. Just to inform you, I am 5'4", i have blonde hair, blue eyes, i am 110lbs, and i am white.
Very unpleased
A.T.
 I really like Shape March 30, 2002
16 out of 18 found this review helpful
I read some of the previous reviews and honestly I don't fully see where they are coming from. I've subscribed for about a year and a half and while I see some recaps on some similar exercises, they throw in new things a lot. There are a lot of recipes and notes on diets and such that I love, and they only talk about how bad fad diets are and don't advertise for them! The workouts do mostly require membership at gyms, but that's why there are magazines out there like Self...I kind of consider Shape for not so amateur exercises and Self for the new and not really wanting to spend a lot of time at it person, or who wants to workout only at home. It's great they show you the equipment and how to use it...and all kinds of great little tips that are helpful. I also do like a little of the beauty stuff, yet it's not overwhelming it. yes the clothes are spendy, but who says you have to buy them? I think they are in all magazines!
Teaches Enlightenment In Your Own Beauty January 7, 2003
16 out of 22 found this review helpful
I've always been a very physically active person.. I like to run and I like to work out.. but fitness magazines for women tend to be one way or the other: "Don't bother with weight loss, find inner peace with Yoga!" or "How Many Pieces of Lettuce You Can Eat A Day To Look Like Janet Jackson." Sure, it's mildly entertaining to look into varieties on either side now and then, but what about those of us who want some recipes, PRACTICAL training tips and quick workout guides? Shape magazine stresses the points that I think are most important in a women's fitness magazine. It offers inspiring weightloss stories, quick (and edible) meals, and fun workouts to boost your regular ones along. And while some of the workout tips CAN get repetitive, just remember.. there are only so many different ways to do a sit-up. Readers of any and ALL fitness magazines know that they usually have the same exercise tips to offer over and over. Shape encourages and enlightens. It shows a way to incorporate exercise into any lifestyle and gives you the encouragement to continue an exercise regimen-- no matter how sedentary you are.
Disappointed!! 10% Substance 90% Advertisement December 30, 2005
Heather (Fort Worth, TX)
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
I use to subscribe to SHAPE several years ago, and then it was packed full of great work out routines, meal plans, etc for women at all levels of fitness.
Well . . . my last few months of Shape have been a complete disappointment. I found very few pages of good genuine fitness and healthy eating advice. Instead, it ranks right up with Glamour in the category of magazines with the highest percentage of advertisements, nearly all of the excercise material is supposed "quick fix" fitness fluff which gives women very unrealistic expectations, and the healthy eating advise is absolutely elementary.
There is no substance in here for women like me, the average working woman who desire to live a healthy life everyday and have limited time to commit to exercise. I want a magazine that is inspiring with a focus on living a sustained healthy lifestyle, not a joke about getting flat abs in a week with illustrations of perfectly chiseled models who obviously do not face the body challenges of average women. I'm sorry but most women are not going to look like "her" after two weeks, or many months of Shape's 10-30 minute a day routines, but they sure lead you to beleive so.
I highly recommend "Her Sports" it is THE magazine for women desiring to live an active, day-to-day healthy life!
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