I was going to quote specific questions but there's been so many helpful responses it's just easier to answer various bits from them all:

1. My resting heart rate is around 86. I have always worried about my heart rate though (like I feel something is wrong but have been told there isn't). This causes it to 'rest' at over 100 a lot of the time but this is a false positive. Supposedly it's anxiety that makes it higher but my real resting heart rate when i'm not thinking about it is in the correct bracket.

2. I wear a fitbit and use gym equipment with heart rate monitor so this is probably fairly accurate. It gets well up to 240 beats per minute and this isn't with much strenuous excercise. Obviously at that rate I can't really push myself to go any further/faster. Again though, if you are mixing never doing much excercise, being unhealthy, suddenly running for 5 minutes and actively always having it in your brain "i'm worried about my heart" that probably doesn't contribute to a very healthy beat per minute.

3. To the person that asked what my goal is and what I like. You summed it up pretty well with "generic toned" haha. I do not want to be a hench guy piling on weight and protein to convert into muscle. There's a good reason for this - I can't for definite say I'll stay committed. If I spent 6 months getting big and was consuming lots of protein and calories to burn off at the gym and then suddenly decided I'll have a break for a month I would then look like a blob with saggy arms.

I'd love to be able to say I'm making this choice for good and I'm committed for life but there's no point lying to myself and as I say, committing to becoming Arnie for a year then letting it all turn into flab.

So I think sensibly toned with much more of a focus on being pysically fit within myself. Not necessarily showing to the outside world but being able to 10k or having a lower resting heart rate, those are all realistic goals I'd like to achieve.

Incidently a lot of what has brought this on is my father having a heart attack and being diagnosed with daibetes earlier in the year. Nothing to suggest it will be passed down to me but it only happened because he smokes like a chimney, eats unhealthy and does zero excercise.

Unfortunately, whilst I don't smoke, I have picked up his habits of not enjoying excercise (would love to have something I'm into but I really do dislike all forms of exercise) and his eating habits.

I think you have finally answered Adam Ant's question he posed in Goody Two Shoes. It was "pizza".

I was going to quote specific questions but there's been so many helpful responses it's just easier to answer various bits from them all:

1. My resting heart rate is around 86. I have always worried about my heart rate though (like I feel something is wrong but have been told there isn't). This causes it to 'rest' at over 100 a lot of the time but this is a false positive. Supposedly it's anxiety that makes it higher but my real resting heart rate when i'm not thinking about it is in the correct bracket.

2. I wear a fitbit and use gym equipment with heart rate monitor so this is probably fairly accurate. It gets well up to 240 beats per minute and this isn't with much strenuous excercise. Obviously at that rate I can't really push myself to go any further/faster. Again though, if you are mixing never doing much excercise, being unhealthy, suddenly running for 5 minutes and actively always having it in your brain "i'm worried about my heart" that probably doesn't contribute to a very healthy beat per minute.

3. To the person that asked what my goal is and what I like. You summed it up pretty well with "generic toned" haha. I do not want to be a hench guy piling on weight and protein to convert into muscle. There's a good reason for this - I can't for definite say I'll stay committed. If I spent 6 months getting big and was consuming lots of protein and calories to burn off at the gym and then suddenly decided I'll have a break for a month I would then look like a blob with saggy arms.

I'd love to be able to say I'm making this choice for good and I'm committed for life but there's no point lying to myself and as I say, committing to becoming Arnie for a year then letting it all turn into flab.

So I think sensibly toned with much more of a focus on being pysically fit within myself. Not necessarily showing to the outside world but being able to 10k or having a lower resting heart rate, those are all realistic goals I'd like to achieve.

Incidently a lot of what has brought this on is my father having a heart attack and being diagnosed with daibetes earlier in the year. Nothing to suggest it will be passed down to me but it only happened because he smokes like a chimney, eats unhealthy and does zero excercise.

Unfortunately, whilst I don't smoke, I have picked up his habits of not enjoying excercise (would love to have something I'm into but I really do dislike all forms of exercise) and his eating habits.