Garmin Forerunner 970 Premium Running Smartwatch
For performance-driven runners, there’s Forerunner® 970 — the premium GPS running and triathlon smartwatch with ourbrightest AMOLED display, durable sapphire lens and lightweight titanium bezel. Use the built-in LED flashlight forgreater awareness when you head out before the sun’s up or stay out past dark. Understand your overall energyefficiency with running economy, and see how much you are slowing down when your foot hits the ground with stepspeed loss (HRM 600 monitor required; sold separately).
Running tolerance helps you understand the real impact running has on your body so you can adjust your training toavoid overload and improve. Use multi-band GPS and full-color, built-in maps plus navigation enhancements to stay ontrack while you train. Forerunner 970 is ready to go as long as you are, with up to 15 days of battery life insmartwatch mode. If you ever go too far, use the built-in speaker and microphone to make a call from your wrist(when paired with your smartphone).
RUNNING ECONOMY
Measure your overall energy efficiency while running — including step speed loss, which tells you how much you slowdown 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 keeptraining 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 providesfull-color, built-in mapping — now even more dynamic, intuitive and simpler to follow.
GARMIN COACH ADAPTIVE TRAINING
Train for an event, achieve a milestone, or improve your fitness with Garmin Coach training plans for running,triathlon, cycling or strength. Select plans even 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, soyou 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 withvoice command — or use your smartphone’s voice assistant to respond to text messages and more.
Key Features
- PREMIUM DESIGN: Our brightest AMOLED touchscreen display with button controls, a lightweighttitanium bezel and sapphire lens, plus a built-in LED flashlight for greater awareness in the dark during earlymorning or late-night runs.
- BATTERY FOR DAYS: Up to 15 days of battery life in smartwatch mode and up to 26 hours in GPS modefor a more complete picture of your training and recovery.
- MORNING REPORT: Wake up to your morning report with an overview of sleep, recovery and trainingoutlook alongside HRV status, training readiness and weather1.
- EVENING REPORT: Prepare for tomorrow before bed with a reminder of sleep need, tomorrow’sworkout, weather and more.
- DYNAMIC ROUND-TRIP ROUTING: Enter how far you want to go, and get suggested routes that willbring you back. If you break off course, your watch will map a new one that hits the same mileage.
- MULTISPORT WORKOUTS: Create custom step-by-step multisport workouts in Garmin Connect, and sendthem to your watch to be executed seamlessly from sport to sport.
- WRIST-BASED RUNNING DYNAMICS/POWER: This smartwatch measures crucial running metrics such ascadence, stride length, ground contact time, and more. It also measures running power so you can precisely manageyour effort.
- TRIATHLON AND MULTISPORT PROFILES: Automatically record splits with built-in profiles fortriathlons, duathlons, brick workouts and swimruns, or you can create your own.
- TRAINING STATUS: Using indicators such as HRV status, recent exercise history and VO2 max, getinsight into training effectiveness with training status — and know whether you’re training productively, peakingor strained.
- ECG APP: ECG app can record your heart rhythm and check for signs of atrialfibrillation2.
Product Details
- Battery Life: Up to 15 days in smartwatch mode / 26 hours in GPS mode
- Display: AMOLED touchscreen with sapphire lens
- Bezel Material: Titanium
- Water Rating: 5 ATM
- Weight: 56 g
- Memory: 32 GB
- Includes: Forerunner 970 GPS running watch, charge/data cable, documentation
- Country of Origin: Made in Taiwan. Cable made in Taiwan or China.
