If you’ve transformed your life and body through diet and exercise, send your story, before & after photos, and contact info to [email protected] for a chance to appear in SHAPE. If we decide to use your story, an editor will contact you. (SHAPE will never publish your story without your permission.)

1.6 million
With its circulation over 1.6 million, SHAPE is the #1 active lifestyle magazine for women and the 4th largest young women’s magazine.

Love the fitness tips and healthy recipes! Shape used to be more about healthy living, now it’s leaning towards a Cosmo-type magazine. Love this magazine with lots of fitness and diet tips and great workout plans. I love this magazine.

Shape, which is published 10 times a year, reaches a rate base of 2.5 million and an audience of 14 million across platforms, focuses on healthy living for the 21st century woman.

Try it: Do squats, push-ups, pull-ups, and dead lifts at least twice a week, preferably three times a week (until you’re doing so much that you need more time to recover). Stick to that schedule; if you don’t, your body won’t be forced to adapt. In terms of reps, sets, and weight, begin however you want.

Christine MacIntyre
Shape is a monthly English language fitness magazine started by Weider Publications in 1981, founded by Christine MacIntyre (a pioneer in women’s free weight fitness) and became the number one women’s fitness magazine. At that time, Weider Enterprises consisted primarily of the bodybuilding magazine Muscle & Fitness.

language fitness magazine
Shape is a monthly English language fitness magazine started by Weider Publications in 1981, founded by Christine MacIntyre (a pioneer in women’s free weight fitness) and became the number one women’s fitness magazine.