Let us start with the most common exercise and the simplest one that you can do, none other than walking. Just by walking for about 30 minutes-1hr can make you lose as much as 360 calories per hour. It is a great cardio workout; you can even further pump it up by walking uphill and downhill. Second exercise is swimming. In swimming you can exercise your whole body, making use of every muscle in the body. You can lose about 800 calories per hour.
If you are fond of dancing then you are in great shape for you can lose about 600- 800 calories per hour. Not only will you enjoy dancing up to the beat of the music you will also be able to lose such amount of calories. If you like to do some sightseeing with the use of your bicycle then it will be a good thing to do. Bicycling is a good exercise to do, about 500 calories per hour is lost.
Aside from swimming, one sport which is good to join is rowing. Have you seen the muscles and bodies of rowers? They truly have fit and well body. Exercise DVDs are also a good exercise to have. Some makes use of abdominal exercises like pushups, crunches and many other specific exercises.
So, those were some of the effective exercises to lose weight. Make use of the information you have and put it into practice. See to it that you are able to achieve your goal. Have fun.