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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: 94
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
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 1 to 3 months
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 11-15 of 59
 Some good articles, but.... February 27, 2003
15 out of 19 found this review helpful
Shape magazine has some good articles, and I especially liked the "success stories" of real people, but the magazine's image puts me off. As a mature woman and mother interested in exercise for health and fitness, I don't need or want to see scantily clad seductively posed teens on every page. Come on - do we need that image of "perfection" to inspire us to work out? I would prefer more emphasis to be placed on substance and up-to-date health and fitness information. Because of the skin-flashing covers,I was embarrassed to be seen reading the magazine, so I cancelled my subscription.
Fluffy foofoo girlie magazine February 14, 2005
Princess Sierra
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
This fitness magazine is weak. The models are generally skinny and not exceptionally toned. Lots of ads featuring rail-thin girls hanging on to musclebound greased up dudes. Even the models posing for the work-out sections are usually super skinny anemic models who would topple over in exhaustion if they had to work-out with anything but a rubber band or a 3 lb hand weight. Nothing wrong with superskinny women, but these are the same body types I see in Vogue and Cosmo--the type who don't really want to gain muscle in the first place.
Did I fail to mention that the magazine is packed full of silly makeup hints, love quizzes and how to be a better lover tips? gag
How to workout with a rubber ball and get fit with a kitchen dishrag, really isn't my idea of working out. If you are more serious into weight training, seeing strong looking role models with cut bodies and trained muscles try magazines like HERS and Oxygen. In these magazine the women have strong healthy bodies, feminine fitness models and mind you, not those behemoth heavyweight muscle bulging steroid type. The work-outs and training tips are lot more helpful in HERS and Oxygen as well. SHAPE Mag is way to foofoo for the serious minded Female fitness nut.
 Dissatisfied September 15, 2003
ALVIN BRAZER (Miami, Florida United States)
13 out of 15 found this review helpful
I have been buying shape magazine for my wife and some of the members in my gym, but within recent months i have stopped as my wife, myself and others have been totally dissatisfied as month after month anorexic looking models grace your magazine from cover to cover, some look so painfully thin it is clear that they only worked out for the magazine shoot. Please use some real women in their various shapes and levels of conditioning for your articles you may be excused in using the anorexic looking cover girl to sell more magazines, however when it comes to keeping it real, believable and inspiring go around to various gyms and use the regular full figured(here i don't mean overweight) women who work out regularly. If each month you feature one of these women i would renew my subcription.Alvin Brazer
changed November 7, 2003
Dianna Wichman (Great Falls, MT)
13 out of 15 found this review helpful
Years ago Shape was my favorite magazine. I still enjoy the articles on lifting and success stories. However, I ordered the magazine to support my son's school. After getting it for 6 months I was very disappointed in the change of your cover. Being a mother of four boys 11-18 years of age. I felt like I had to hide them. Are these girls on the cover trying out for Playboy or what. Need to go back to your old covers with healthy, covered woman on the front. Needless to say I did not renew.
Myths, half-truths and advertisements April 11, 2005
Lincoln F. Brigham Jr. (San Diego, CA USA)
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
Hardly an issue of "SHAPE" hits the newstands that does not prominently feature some article that sells some myth of fitness. There is almost always some article on "sculpting" followed by another implying there are some magic "spot reducing" exercise contained the pages. These two myths of fitness seem to be part of the magazine's core editorial policy. "Sculpting" is something done to clay, not muscles and fat, and "spot reducing" is a myth that ranks up there with the Flat Earth Society. I suspect the editorial staff of "SHAPE" promotes the kind of articles that espouse what people want to hear, not what is true about working out. Furthermore, nearly every photo of a strength training exercise features some hot-looking 20-something model using weights so light they wouldn't challenge a grandmother. Never will you see a picture of a model holding a weight that would be even slightly heavy for a healthy, fit woman of that age.
Mostly this magazine seems to be an excuse to sell ad space. Save your money and look elsewhere.
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