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
Reach your goals with Garmin Coach training plans for running, cycling, strength and fitness; some even adapt based on your health and fitness 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.
PLAN
MORNING REPORT
Receive an overview of your sleep, recovery, daily calendar, HRV status and more as soon as you wake up. You can even customize your reports theme, data shown and more.
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.
COURSE PLANNER
Prepare for what’s to come with course planner. This feature lets you add cut-off times, notes, rest plans, checkpoints and aid stations to keep you on track throughout the race.
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 running, track run and cycling 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.
HEALTH STATUS
Look for changes in your health data that could indicate added stress to your body, so you can know when you’re trending away from your usual range.
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.
SLEEP ALIGNMENT
See how aligned you are to your circadian rhythm to help maintain a more consistent sleep cycle.
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.
SMART WAKE ALARM
Wake up more refreshed. Smart wake alarm can gently vibrate to wake you at the right time.
BREATHING VARIATIONS
For a closer glimpse of your health, the breathing variations feature helps you understand shifts in your breathing patterns as you sleep2. These shifts could be related to environment, alcohol, or potential sleep disorders such as sleep apnea.
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 app3 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 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 estimates4.
NATURAL CYCLES° COMPATIBILITY
Unlock deeper fertility insights when you sync your skin temperature data with the FDA-cleared Natural Cycles birth control app8 (Natural Cycles subscription required).
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.
PREPARE
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.
LIFESTYLE LOGGING
Log behaviors — such as caffeine and alcohol intake — and view reports on how they impact your health in the Garmin Connect™ app.
NUTRITION IN THE GARMIN CONNECT™ APP
Easily track calories and macronutrients, get personalized nutrition recommendations and see reports to follow your progress toward your goals with a Garmin Connect+ plan.
PULSE OX SENSOR
Track your blood oxygen saturation while you’re awake or asleep5.
CROSS TRAINING
Download free HIIT, strength, cardio, yoga, Pilates and mobility workouts so you can switch up how you sweat.
MIXED SESSION
Track multiple activities in one session. Just choose one activity, press stop, then move to the next.
PERFORM
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 in to 30+ built-in activities, including cycling, open-water swimming, strength training and more.
SEE YOUR CYCLING DATA
Connect with compatible cycling products, including Rally™ power meter pedals, to monitor performance and ride smarter, plus get haptic and voice alerts for approaching vehicles and more when paired with a Varia™ rearview radar.
CONNECT
MUSIC
Download songs and playlists from your Spotify, Deezer, Amazon Music or YouTube® Music accounts for phone-free listening (subscription may be required).
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 location6.
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.
WORKS WITH WHATSAPP
Stay up to date on WhatsApp while keeping your phone in your pocket. Read, reply and react to your messages right from your watch7. The app is available in the Connect IQ Store.
LIVETRACK
Friends and family can follow your real-time location6 and view preplanned courses.
COLOR FILTERS
Get color display options — including gray scale, red/green, green/red or blue/yellow — to assist with various forms of color blindness.
WATCH FACE CUSTOMIZATION
Choose from various watch faces with customizable data and colors. Even hear the data fields spoken from the watch face.
GARMIN CONNECT APP
See your health and fitness information, connect with friends and more.
GARMIN SHARE
Sync up with friends by sharing saved locations, courses and workouts with other nearby compatible devices.
CONNECT IQ™ STORE
Add watch faces, data fields and apps to your paired watch.
