Forerunner® 970 GPS Watch

Get ready for your race with personalised plans from Garmin Coach for running and triathlons. Use the training readiness feature to know when you’re primed for a productive workout, and use training status to know if you’re training productively. It provides comprehensive health data such as heart rate, calories, sleep and stress. It also comes with helpful data displays like the morning report which provides a useful overview of your sleep, recovery and training outlook.

30+ activity profiles ensure the Forerunner® 970 can adapt to any training regime, including a dedicated triathlon feature that combines dedicated profiles for running, swimming and cycling. It helps to plan your strategy with daily suggested workouts and syncs up with Garmin IQ, Garmin Connect and other platforms like Strava and Komoot so you can input your pre-planned routes or access routes from other members of the running community.

Advanced running metrics go into more detail than other smartwatches to provide the ultimate training assistance, while helpful features like Garmin Pay™ contactless payments and smartphone notifications means the watch can provide assistance in everyday life too.

Health

• Wrist-based heart rate
• Stress tracking
• Sleep score and advanced sleep monitoring
• Body battery™ energy monitoring
• Pulse ox
• Fitness age
• Intensity minutes
• Women’s health tracking
• Jet lag adviser
• Skin temperature
• Health snapshot
• ECG app can record your heart rhythm and check for signs of atrial fibrillation (not available in all countries. For people 22 years or older)

Training

• Morning report
• HRV status
• HR Zones, Alerts, & Calories
• Auto Pause® automatic timer halt
• Interval training
• Auto Lap®
• Manual Lap
• Rest Timer
• VO2 Max
• Auto Max HR
• HR Broadcast
• Built-in sports apps
• Race widget
• Daily suggested workouts
• Garmin coach
• Triathlon and multisport profiles
• Multisport auto-transition detects sport changes between swim, bike and run 
• Running power
• Recovery time
• Pacepro™ feature
• Training status
• Acute load
• Training effect
• Performance condition
• Running dynamics
• Pre-existing courses
• Sync routes from other platforms like strava and komoot
• Track running
• Visual race predictor
• Cross-training
• Kid-friendly activity tracking features
• Physio Trueup

Connectivity and Navigation

• Bluetooth®, ANT+®, Wi-Fi®
• Smartphone compatibility: iPhone®, Android®
• Text response/reject phone call with text (Android™ only)
• Multi-band GNSS support
• Smart notifications
• Safety and tracking features
• Compatible with HRM 600 monitor (sold separately) 
• Calendar
• Weather forecast
• Realtime settings sync with Garmin Connect™ Mobile
• Music storage
• Controls smartphone music
• Play and Control watch music
• Garmin Pay™ contactless payments
• Connect IQ™ – Downloadable watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps
• Battery saver
• Find My Phone
• Find My Watch
• Smart trainer control
• Stocks

Technical specification

• Water rated to 50 metres (5 ATM)
• Fibre-reinforced polymer case
• Lens: Corning® Gorilla® Glass 3
• Aluminium bezel
• Silicone strap
• 22mm QuickFit™ watch band compatible
• Built in speaker/microphone
• Battery: 15 days in smartwatch mode, 26 hours in GPS
• Weight: 56g
• Display: 454 x 454 pixels 
• Display size: 35.3mm (1.4”) diameter
• Physical size: 47