Shape

I somehow won a 6 month subscription to Shape magazine which is just as well as I would never chose to buy it. This doesn't reflect on the magazine itself, its just that I've never had an overwhelming interest in fitness and health. This aside I was impressed with the magazine and the range of articles and topics that it covered. It tries to encompass all areas of health and fitness and almost succeeds. The main topic areas covered by Shape are - Getting fit - exercises you can do at home, different types of classes that you may not know much about eg Pilates, a weight loss diary of some poor person so you can know that you are not alone in your ...

Shape is not a magazine I would normally chose to buy, but when a copy ends up in my hands, as it invariably does, I usually flick through before chucking it under my bed where all things that need to be banished from sight but still can’t, for some unknown reason, be thrown away, live. Published monthly by Dennis Publishing, Shape is, as the name would suggest, concerned with all things healthy and fitnessey. They’re a little over the top with their accepting yourself and worshipping life emphasis – all their sections have the L word in the title – love your health, love your body, love your world and so on. Unlike some other ...

Last year, I was one of the lucky people to receive three free issues of this magazine through a website promotion. I originally wrote a scathing review on dooyoo after reading the first two issues which, to be perfectly honest, didn’t impress me very much. Incidentally, the third one didn’t even arrive. I am not into health in fitness in a big way - well not in a big enough way to buy a magazine about it although I have bought "Zest" a few times. I do the odd aerobics class, have a swim once in a while and on occasions have been known to set foot in my local gym. As a result, I found the issues of Shape unappealing as they did not have ...