- OVERVIEW
- FEATURES
- PLAN
- PREPARE
- PERFORM
- CONNECT
- SPECIFICATIONS
- IN THE BOX
- Bright 1.4-inch AMOLED display
- Up to 26 hours of battery life in GPS mode
- Premium training and recovery features
- Built-in maps with satiq™ technology and multi-band GPS
- Lightweight titanium bezel and durable sapphire lens
- Built-in LED flashlight
- RUNNING ECONOMY - Measure your overall energy efficiency while running — using long-term running volume, stride length, and step speed loss, which tells you how much you slow down when your foot hits the ground — when you pair your watch with the HRM 600 monitor (sold separately).
- RUNNING TOLERANCE - Better understand the impact each run has on your body, and get a recommended weekly maximum mileage so you can keep training effectively without taking on too much.
- FULL-COLOR MAPPING - Whether you’re running on city streets or riding densely covered trails, the Forerunner 970 smartwatch provides full-color, built-in mapping — now even more dynamic, intuitive, and simpler to follow.
- GARMIN COACH ADAPTIVE TRAINING PLANS - Train for an event, achieve a milestone, or improve your fitness with Garmin Coach training plans for running, triathlon, cycling, or strength. Select plans adapt daily for personalized workouts based on your performance, recovery, and health metrics.
- TRAINING READINESS - From the moment you wake up, get a readiness score based on your sleep quality, recovery, training load, and more, so you can determine whether it’s a good day to go hard or take it easy.
- BUILT-IN SPEAKER AND MICROPHONE - Make and take phone calls from your watch when it’s paired to your smartphone. Plus, control watch functions with voice command — or use your smartphone’s voice assistant to respond to text messages and more.
- MORNING REPORT - Get a customizable overview of your sleep, training outlook, HRV status, weather and more as soon as you wake up1.
- EVENING REPORT - Prepare for tomorrow before bed with a reminder of sleep need, tomorrow’s workout, weather and events.
- TURN-BY-TURN DIRECTIONS - Create or find existing courses in the Garmin Connect™ smartphone app, or sync from third-party platforms and get turn-by-turn directions.
- DYNAMIC ROUND-TRIP ROUTING - Enter how far you want to go, and get suggested routes that will bring you back. If you break off course, your watch will map a new one that hits the same mileage.
- TRAINING STATUS - Using indicators such as HRV status, your recent exercise history and VO2 max, get an easy insight into training effectiveness — and know whether you’re training productively, peaking or strained.
- DAILY SUGGESTED WORKOUTS - Get workouts made for you. They adapt after every run to match your performance and recovery.
- RECOVERY TIME - Know how long you need to recover before your next high-effort workout based on your latest training.
- BODY BATTERY™ ENERGY MONITORING - Track your body’s energy levels to find the best times for activity and rest1.
- SLEEP COACH - Get a sleep score and personalized coaching for how much sleep you need. Track sleep stages, and get insights to improve sleep quality1.
- BREATHING VARIATIONS - For a closer glimpse of your health, the breathing variations feature uses Pulse Ox4 to help you better understand shifts in your breathing patterns as you sleep.
- NAP DETECTION - Automatically track or log your naps to see how they benefit your body and to check the recommended time and duration they should be.
- HRV STATUS - Gain a deeper understanding of your overall health, stress and recovery through heart rate variability while you sleep.
- GARMIN ECG APP - The ECG app2 uses sensors to record the electrical signals that control how your heart beats. It analyzes the recording to detect signs of an irregular heart rhythm called atrial fibrillation.
- SKIN TEMPERATURE - When wearing your watch to sleep, see how your average skin temperature1 changes, which can be related to your recent activity, sleep environment, potential illness, and more.
- WOMEN’S HEALTH TRACKING - Track your menstrual cycle or pregnancy, plus get exercise and nutrition education. With skin temperature tracking while you sleep, get better period predictions and past ovulation estimates3.
- RACE PREDICTOR - Get an estimate of what your pace could be for a 5K, 10K, half-marathon, and marathon if you were to run it today.
- PROJECTED RACE TIME - This race-time prediction is what your race time and pace could be if you keep training well all the way through to the race date entered.
- WRIST-BASED RUNNING DYNAMICS - This smartwatch measures crucial running metrics such as cadence, stride length, ground contact time, and more.
- STEP SPEED LOSS - Improve your running form and understand how much you slow down when your foot hits the ground when you pair your watch with the HRM 600 monitor (sold separately).
- WRIST-BASED HEART RATE - The watch constantly samples your heart rate to help you gauge how hard you work during activities1.
- MULTISPORT WORKOUTS - Create custom step-by-step multisport workouts in Garmin Connect and send them to your watch to seamlessly switch from different sport types.
- HILL SCORE - Measure your capability for running uphill, and evaluate your progress over time based on your VO2 max and training history.
- ENDURANCE SCORE - This feature measures your ability to sustain prolonged efforts to help you understand how training from your athletic pursuits impacts your overall endurance.
- ACUTE LOAD - Compare your recent training load to the optimal range to help improve your fitness.
- LOAD RATIO - Track short-term to mid-term load ratio to keep your rate of training growth within bounds that will help you stay healthy and avoid setbacks.
- PERFORMANCE CONDITION - While you run, get an analysis of your pace and heart rate for a real-time assessment of your current ability to perform.
- VO2 MAX - See your current fitness level, and track changes over time to set goals, evaluate progress, and more.
- STRESS TRACKING - Find out if you’re having a calm, balanced or stressful day.
- TRAINING EFFECT - See how your workouts influence your endurance, speed, and power.
- HEALTH SNAPSHOT - Log a 2-minute session to record key health stats, then generate a report to share with your health care provider.
- PULSE OX SENSOR - Track your blood oxygen saturation while you’re awake or asleep.
- CROSS TRAINING - Download free HIIT, strength, cardio, yoga, Pilates, and mobility workouts so you can switch up how you sweat.
- TRIATHLON AND MULTISPORT PROFILES - Automatically record splits with built-in profiles for triathlons, duathlons, brick workouts, and swimruns, or you can create your own.
- WRIST-BASED RUNNING POWER - See how much power you’re applying to the trail or road so you can manage effort and fine-tune training.
- SATIQ TECHNOLOGY AND MULTI-BAND GPS - Get superior positioning accuracy and optimized battery life.
- PACEPRO™ PACING STRATEGIES - Plan race-day strategy with GPS-based pace guidance for a selected course or distance.
- TRACK RUNNING - Your watch will record accurate lap distances in meters on tracks all over the world.
- CLIMBPRO - See real-time information on your current and upcoming climbs.
- REAL-TIME STAMINA - Use this data to help guide you toward your best possible performance and manage your exertion.
- UP AHEAD - Get at-a-glance awareness of relevant stops along a preloaded course, including aid stations.
- AUTO LAP® BY TIMING GATES - Your watch will recognize when you cross mile or kilometer course points and trigger auto laps there versus GPS-based miles or kilometers when following a course.
- SUGGESTED FINISH LINE - If you have a course loaded for your race, your watch can suggest trimming your data to the finish line if you forget to stop your timer.
- BUILT-IN SPORTS APPS - Tap into 30+ built-in activities, including cycling, open-water swimming, strength training, and more.
- MUSIC - Download songs and playlists from your Spotify, Deezer or Amazon Music accounts for phone-free listening.
- SAFETY AND TRACKING - If you feel unsafe or if your watch senses that an incident occurred, your watch will send a message with your live location5.
- GARMIN PAY™ CONTACTLESS PAYMENTS - Breeze through checkout lines or transit systems with participating providers.
- SMART NOTIFICATIONS - Receive emails, texts, and alerts on your watch when paired with your iPhone® or Android™ smartphone.
- LIVETRACK - Friends and family can follow your real-time location5 and view preplanned courses.
- GARMIN CONNECT APP - See your health and fitness information, connect with friends, and more.
- CONNECT IQ™ STORE - Add watch faces, data fields, and apps to your paired watch.
- GARMIN SHARE - Sync up with friends by sharing saved locations, courses and workouts with other nearby compatible devices.
| Sleep score and insights | Yes |
|---|---|
| Battery life (smartwatch mode) | Up to 15 days |
| Built-in mapping | Yes |
| Pulse Ox blood oxygen | yes (spot-check, and optional all-day acclimation and in sleep) |
| Garmin ECG App | Yes |
| LED flashlight | Yes |
| Garmin Pay™ | Yes |
| Multi-band GPS | Yes |
| Music storage | Yes |
| Make calls and send texts via voice | yes (with paired compatible smartphone) |
| Training readiness | Yes |
| Training status | yes (improved) |
| Display type | AMOLED (optional always-on mode) |
| Touchscreen | |
| Water rating | 5 ATM |
- Forerunner 970 GPS running watch
- Charging cable
- Documentation
- Bright 1.4-inch AMOLED display
- Up to 26 hours of battery life in GPS mode
- Premium training and recovery features
- Built-in maps with satiq™ technology and multi-band GPS
- Lightweight titanium bezel and durable sapphire lens
- Built-in LED flashlight
- RUNNING ECONOMY - Measure your overall energy efficiency while running — using long-term running volume, stride length, and step speed loss, which tells you how much you slow down when your foot hits the ground — when you pair your watch with the HRM 600 monitor (sold separately).
- RUNNING TOLERANCE - Better understand the impact each run has on your body, and get a recommended weekly maximum mileage so you can keep training effectively without taking on too much.
- FULL-COLOR MAPPING - Whether you’re running on city streets or riding densely covered trails, the Forerunner 970 smartwatch provides full-color, built-in mapping — now even more dynamic, intuitive, and simpler to follow.
- GARMIN COACH ADAPTIVE TRAINING PLANS - Train for an event, achieve a milestone, or improve your fitness with Garmin Coach training plans for running, triathlon, cycling, or strength. Select plans adapt daily for personalized workouts based on your performance, recovery, and health metrics.
- TRAINING READINESS - From the moment you wake up, get a readiness score based on your sleep quality, recovery, training load, and more, so you can determine whether it’s a good day to go hard or take it easy.
- BUILT-IN SPEAKER AND MICROPHONE - Make and take phone calls from your watch when it’s paired to your smartphone. Plus, control watch functions with voice command — or use your smartphone’s voice assistant to respond to text messages and more.
- MORNING REPORT - Get a customizable overview of your sleep, training outlook, HRV status, weather and more as soon as you wake up1.
- EVENING REPORT - Prepare for tomorrow before bed with a reminder of sleep need, tomorrow’s workout, weather and events.
- TURN-BY-TURN DIRECTIONS - Create or find existing courses in the Garmin Connect™ smartphone app, or sync from third-party platforms and get turn-by-turn directions.
- DYNAMIC ROUND-TRIP ROUTING - Enter how far you want to go, and get suggested routes that will bring you back. If you break off course, your watch will map a new one that hits the same mileage.
- TRAINING STATUS - Using indicators such as HRV status, your recent exercise history and VO2 max, get an easy insight into training effectiveness — and know whether you’re training productively, peaking or strained.
- DAILY SUGGESTED WORKOUTS - Get workouts made for you. They adapt after every run to match your performance and recovery.
- RECOVERY TIME - Know how long you need to recover before your next high-effort workout based on your latest training.
- BODY BATTERY™ ENERGY MONITORING - Track your body’s energy levels to find the best times for activity and rest1.
- SLEEP COACH - Get a sleep score and personalized coaching for how much sleep you need. Track sleep stages, and get insights to improve sleep quality1.
- BREATHING VARIATIONS - For a closer glimpse of your health, the breathing variations feature uses Pulse Ox4 to help you better understand shifts in your breathing patterns as you sleep.
- NAP DETECTION - Automatically track or log your naps to see how they benefit your body and to check the recommended time and duration they should be.
- HRV STATUS - Gain a deeper understanding of your overall health, stress and recovery through heart rate variability while you sleep.
- GARMIN ECG APP - The ECG app2 uses sensors to record the electrical signals that control how your heart beats. It analyzes the recording to detect signs of an irregular heart rhythm called atrial fibrillation.
- SKIN TEMPERATURE - When wearing your watch to sleep, see how your average skin temperature1 changes, which can be related to your recent activity, sleep environment, potential illness, and more.
- WOMEN’S HEALTH TRACKING - Track your menstrual cycle or pregnancy, plus get exercise and nutrition education. With skin temperature tracking while you sleep, get better period predictions and past ovulation estimates3.
- RACE PREDICTOR - Get an estimate of what your pace could be for a 5K, 10K, half-marathon, and marathon if you were to run it today.
- PROJECTED RACE TIME - This race-time prediction is what your race time and pace could be if you keep training well all the way through to the race date entered.
- WRIST-BASED RUNNING DYNAMICS - This smartwatch measures crucial running metrics such as cadence, stride length, ground contact time, and more.
- STEP SPEED LOSS - Improve your running form and understand how much you slow down when your foot hits the ground when you pair your watch with the HRM 600 monitor (sold separately).
- WRIST-BASED HEART RATE - The watch constantly samples your heart rate to help you gauge how hard you work during activities1.
- MULTISPORT WORKOUTS - Create custom step-by-step multisport workouts in Garmin Connect and send them to your watch to seamlessly switch from different sport types.
- HILL SCORE - Measure your capability for running uphill, and evaluate your progress over time based on your VO2 max and training history.
- ENDURANCE SCORE - This feature measures your ability to sustain prolonged efforts to help you understand how training from your athletic pursuits impacts your overall endurance.
- ACUTE LOAD - Compare your recent training load to the optimal range to help improve your fitness.
- LOAD RATIO - Track short-term to mid-term load ratio to keep your rate of training growth within bounds that will help you stay healthy and avoid setbacks.
- PERFORMANCE CONDITION - While you run, get an analysis of your pace and heart rate for a real-time assessment of your current ability to perform.
- VO2 MAX - See your current fitness level, and track changes over time to set goals, evaluate progress, and more.
- STRESS TRACKING - Find out if you’re having a calm, balanced or stressful day.
- TRAINING EFFECT - See how your workouts influence your endurance, speed, and power.
- HEALTH SNAPSHOT - Log a 2-minute session to record key health stats, then generate a report to share with your health care provider.
- PULSE OX SENSOR - Track your blood oxygen saturation while you’re awake or asleep.
- CROSS TRAINING - Download free HIIT, strength, cardio, yoga, Pilates, and mobility workouts so you can switch up how you sweat.
- TRIATHLON AND MULTISPORT PROFILES - Automatically record splits with built-in profiles for triathlons, duathlons, brick workouts, and swimruns, or you can create your own.
- WRIST-BASED RUNNING POWER - See how much power you’re applying to the trail or road so you can manage effort and fine-tune training.
- SATIQ TECHNOLOGY AND MULTI-BAND GPS - Get superior positioning accuracy and optimized battery life.
- PACEPRO™ PACING STRATEGIES - Plan race-day strategy with GPS-based pace guidance for a selected course or distance.
- TRACK RUNNING - Your watch will record accurate lap distances in meters on tracks all over the world.
- CLIMBPRO - See real-time information on your current and upcoming climbs.
- REAL-TIME STAMINA - Use this data to help guide you toward your best possible performance and manage your exertion.
- UP AHEAD - Get at-a-glance awareness of relevant stops along a preloaded course, including aid stations.
- AUTO LAP® BY TIMING GATES - Your watch will recognize when you cross mile or kilometer course points and trigger auto laps there versus GPS-based miles or kilometers when following a course.
- SUGGESTED FINISH LINE - If you have a course loaded for your race, your watch can suggest trimming your data to the finish line if you forget to stop your timer.
- BUILT-IN SPORTS APPS - Tap into 30+ built-in activities, including cycling, open-water swimming, strength training, and more.
- MUSIC - Download songs and playlists from your Spotify, Deezer or Amazon Music accounts for phone-free listening.
- SAFETY AND TRACKING - If you feel unsafe or if your watch senses that an incident occurred, your watch will send a message with your live location5.
- GARMIN PAY™ CONTACTLESS PAYMENTS - Breeze through checkout lines or transit systems with participating providers.
- SMART NOTIFICATIONS - Receive emails, texts, and alerts on your watch when paired with your iPhone® or Android™ smartphone.
- LIVETRACK - Friends and family can follow your real-time location5 and view preplanned courses.
- GARMIN CONNECT APP - See your health and fitness information, connect with friends, and more.
- CONNECT IQ™ STORE - Add watch faces, data fields, and apps to your paired watch.
- GARMIN SHARE - Sync up with friends by sharing saved locations, courses and workouts with other nearby compatible devices.
| Sleep score and insights | Yes |
|---|---|
| Battery life (smartwatch mode) | Up to 15 days |
| Built-in mapping | Yes |
| Pulse Ox blood oxygen | yes (spot-check, and optional all-day acclimation and in sleep) |
| Garmin ECG App | Yes |
| LED flashlight | Yes |
| Garmin Pay™ | Yes |
| Multi-band GPS | Yes |
| Music storage | Yes |
| Make calls and send texts via voice | yes (with paired compatible smartphone) |
| Training readiness | Yes |
| Training status | yes (improved) |
| Display type | AMOLED (optional always-on mode) |
| Touchscreen | |
| Water rating | 5 ATM |
- Forerunner 970 GPS running watch
- Charging cable
- Documentation