Train smarter with the Forerunner 970 smartwatch. Measure your running efficiency with insights like stride length, long-term volume, and step speed loss, showing how much you slow down on impact. Understand how each run affects your body and get personalized weekly mileage recommendations to avoid overtraining. Navigate confidently with full-color, built-in maps that are now more dynamic and intuitive. Whether you're training for a race or building fitness, adaptive Garmin Coach plans for running, triathlon, cycling, and strength adjust daily based on your performance and recovery. Start each day with a readiness score based on sleep, training load, and recovery and stay connected with built-in calling and voice assistant support right from your wrist.

• Brilliant 1.4" AMOLED Display with a lightweight titanium bezel and durable sapphire lens
• Up to 26 Hours of Battery Life in GPS mode for extended training sessions
• Premium Training & Recovery Tools to optimize performance and readiness
• Built-in Maps with SatIQ & Multi-Band GPS, plus an integrated LED flashlight for added visibility
• 47 x 47 x 12.9 (mm), Fits wrists with a circumference of 135-205 mm

MORNING REPORT

Get a customizable overview of your sleep, training outlook, HRV status, weather and more as soon as you wake up.

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 rest.

SLEEP COACH

Get a sleep score and personalized coaching for how much sleep you need. Track sleep stages, and get insights to improve sleep quality.

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.

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.

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 app uses sensors to record the electrical signals that control how your heart beats. It analyzes that 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 temperature 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 estimates.

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.