Garmin Reloj Forerunner 970

Our Best And Brightest Running Smartwatches.

Let Them Know You’re Out There:
- With A Built-in Led Flashlight

Built For The Demands Of Training:
- With Up To 15 Days Of Battery In Smartwatch Mode

We’ve Got Your Route:
- Full-colour Maps With Enhanced Navigation

“can’t Talk, On A Run”:
- Sounds Better With A Built-in Speaker And Microphone

Find A New Fast:
- With Running Economy And Running Tolerance

- 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

What You´ll Love:

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 heart rate 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-colour Mapping:
- Whether you’re running on city streets or riding densely covered trails, the Forerunner 970 smartwatch provides full-colour, 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 personalised 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.

Your Best Just Got Better:

Plan:

Morning Report:
- Get a customisable 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 personalised 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.

Hrv Status:
- Gain a deeper understanding of your overall health, stress and recovery through heart rate variability while you sleep.

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.

Prepare:

Wrist-based Running Dynamics:
- This fitness 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 theHRM 600 heart rate monitor (sold separately).

Wrist-based Heart Rate:
- This watch constantly samples your heart rate to help you gauge how hard you work during activities.

Multisport Workouts:
- Create custom step-by-step multisport workouts in Garmin Connect and send them to your watch to seamlessly switch from differentsport 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 pursuitsimpacts 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 andavoid 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 healthcare 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.

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 optimised 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 recognise when you cross mile or kilometre course points and trigger auto laps there versus GPS-based miles or kilometres 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.

Connect:

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 location.

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 location 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.

Specifications:

What You´ll Love:
- Sleep Score and Insights: Yes
- Battery life (smartwatch mode): Up to 15 days
- Built-in mapping: Yes

Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation: 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: Improved
- Watch display type: AMOLED (optional always-on mode)
- Touchscreen: Yes
- Water rating: 5 ATM

General:
- Strap material: Silicone
- Lens material: Sapphire crystal
- Bezel material: Titanium
- QuickFit™ watch band compatible: Yes (22 mm)
- Physical size: 47 x 47 x 12.9 (mm)
- Fits wrists with a circumference of 135-205 mm
- Weight: 56 g
- Built-in speaker/microphone: Yes
- Display Size: 35.3 mm (1.4´´) diameter
- Display Resolution: 454 x 454 pixels
- Colour display: Yes
- Large font option: Yes
- Battery type: Lithium ion
- Battery life: Smartwatch mode: Up to 15 days
- GPS-Only GNSS mode: Up to 26 hours
- SatIQ (AutoSelect) GNSS mode: Up to 23 hours
- All-Systems GNSS mode + Multi-Band: Up to 21 hours
- GPS-Only GNSS mode with music: Up to 14 hours
- SatIQ (AutoSelect) GNSS mode with music: Up to 13 hours
- All-Systems GNSS mode + Multi-Band with music: Up to 12 hours

See details:
- Charging method: Garmin proprietary plug charger
- Memory/history: 32 GB

Clock features:
- Time/date: Yes
- GPS time sync: Yes
- Automatic daylight saving time: Yes
- Alarm clock: Yes
- Timer: Yes
- Stopwatch: Yes
- Sunrise/sunset times: Yes

Health & Wellness Monitoring:
- Wrist-based heart rate (constant, every second): Yes
- Daily Resting Heart Rate: Yes
- Abnormal Heart Rate Alerts: Yes (high and low)
- Respiration Rate (24x7): Yes
- Fitness Age: Yes
- Body Battery™ Energy Monitor: Yes
- All-day Stress: Yes
- Relaxation reminders: Yes
- Relaxation Breathing Timer: Yes
- Meditation: Yes
- Breathwork: Yes
- Sleep: Yes (Advanced)
- Sleep coach: Yes
- Breathing variations: Yes
- Nap detection : Yes
- Hydration: Yes (in Garmin Connect™ and optional Connect IQ™ widget)
- Women´s Health: Yes (in Garmin Connect™ and optional Connect IQ™ widget)
- Health Snapshot: Yes
- Skin temperature: Yes
- JET LAG ADVISER: Yes

Sensors:
- GPS: Yes
- GLONASS: Yes
- Galileo: Yes
- QZSS: Yes
- BeiDou: Yes
- SatIQ™ Technology: Yes
- Garmin Elevate™ wrist heart rate monitor: Yes
- Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation Monitor: Yes
- Barometric altimeter: Yes
- Compass: Yes
- Gyroscope: Yes
- Accelerometer: Yes
- Thermometer: Yes
- Ambient light sensor: Yes

Daily smart features:
- Connectivity: Bluetooth®, ANT+®, Wi-Fi®
- Connect IQ™ (downloadable watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps): Yes
- On-device Connect IQ™ Store: Yes
- Smart Notifications: Yes
- Text response/reject phone call with text (Android™ only): Yes
- View images from notifications on watch (Android™ only): Yes
- Morning report: Yes
- Evening report: Yes
- Calendar: Yes
- Weather forecasts: Yes
- Realtime settings sync with Garmin Connect™ mobile: Yes
- Battery Saver - customisable low power watch: Yes
- Controls smartphone music: Yes
- Plays and controls watch music: Yes
- Find my phone: Yes
- Find my watch: Yes
- Find My Phone during GPS activity: Yes
- Compatible with Garmin Messenger app: Yes
- Smart trainer control: Yes
- Compatible with Garmin Connect™ Mobile: Yes
- Smartphone compatibility: iPhone®, Android™
- Stocks: Yes (optional Connect IQ app)
- BLUETOOTH phone calling and voice assistant support: Yes
- Voice command: Yes
- Red shift mode: Yes
- Garmin Share: Yes
- Passcode: how is Now Company, going

Workout and Training Plans:
- Daily Suggested Workout - Running: Yes
- Daily Suggested Workout - Cycling: Yes
- Garmin Running Coach: Yes
- Garmin Running Coach Experts: Yes
- Garmin Cycling Coach: Yes
- Garmin Coach - Prebuilt Cycling Plans: Yes
- Garmin Coach - Strength: Yes
- Garmin Triathlon Coach: Yes
- Multisport workouts: Yes
- Cardio workouts: Yes
- Strength workouts: Yes
- HIIT workouts: Yes
- Yoga workouts: Yes
- Pilates workouts: Yes
- On-screen workout animations: Yes
- On-Screen Workout Muscle Map: Yes

Activity profiles:
- Gym: Strength, HIIT, Cardio, Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, Floor Climbing, Indoor rowing, Jump Roping
- Multisport: Triathlon, Duathlon, Brick, Pool triathlon, Swimming/Running
- WELLNESS: Walking, Pilates, Yoga, Indoor Walking, Mobility
- INDOOR RUNNING: Treadmill Running, Indoor Track Running, Virtual running
- Outdoor running: Running, Outdoor Track Running, Trail Running, Ultra Running, Obstacle Racing
- Outdoor recreation: Hiking, Mountaineering, Indoor Climbing, Bouldering, Hunting, Horseback Riding, Golfing, Disc Golf, Archery
- Cycling: Biking, Road biking, Mountain Biking, Gravel biking, Bike commuting, Bike touring, eBiking, eMountain Biking, Indoor Biking, Cyclocross, BMX
- Swim: Pool Swimming, Open Water Swimming
- On the water: Stand Up Paddleboarding, Rowing, Kayaking, Fishing, Boating, Sailing, Sail Racing, Snorkeling, Sailing Expedition
- Motor sports: Motorcycling, Overlanding, Motorcrossing, ATVing, Snowmobiling
- Racket sports: Tennis, Pickleball, Badminton, Squash, Table Tennis, Padel, Platform Tennis, Racquetball
- Snow & Winter: Skiing, Snowboarding, Backcountry Snowboarding, XC Classic Skiing, XC Skate Skiing, Backcountry Skiing, Ice Skating, Snowshoeing
- Sport profiles: Basketball, Volleyball, Field Hockey, Ice Hockey, Football, American Football, Lacrosse, Rugby, Ultimate Disc, Cricket, Softball, Baseball
- In the ring: Boxing, Mixed martial arts
- Other activity profiles: Inline Skating

Safety and tracking features:
- Incident Detection during select activities: Yes
- Incident detection alert on phone for wearables: Yes
- Assistance: Yes
- LiveTrack: Yes
- Spectator messaging: Yes (with compatible smartphone)
- Group LiveTrack: Yes
- Live Event Sharing: Android™ Only

Activity tracking features:
- Step counter: Yes
- Move alerts (displays on device after a period of inactivity; walk for a couple of minutes to reset it): Yes
- Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal): Yes
- Calories Burned: Yes
- Floors climbed: Yes
- Distance travelled: Yes
- Intensity minutes: Yes
- TrueUp™: Yes
- Move IQ™: Yes
- Garmin Connect™ Challenges app: Yes (optional Connect IQ app)
- Automatic rep counting: Yes

Training, planning and analysis features:
- Customisable screen(s): Yes
- Downloadable training plans: Yes
- Course guidance: Yes
- HR Zones: Yes
- HR Alerts: Yes
- HR Calories: Yes
- % HR Max: Yes
- % HRR: Yes
- Recovery Time: Yes
- Auto Max HR: Yes
- Race glance/widget: Yes
- HRV Status: Yes
- HR Broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+® to paired devices): Yes
- Respiration Rate (During Exercise): Yes (with compatible accessory)
- GPS speed and distance: Yes
- Customisable activity profiles: Yes
- Auto Pause® automatic timer halt: Yes
- Interval training: Yes
- Improved interval (includes open repeats, intervals data page, rest screen and auto detection): Yes
- Advanced workouts: Yes
- Power Modes - customisable in-activity battery settings: Yes
- HRM running pace and distance: Yes
- Auto Lap®: Yes
- Manual lap: Yes
- Rest timer: Yes
- Configurable lap alerts: Yes
- Heat and Altitude Acclimation: Yes
- VO2 Max (Run): Yes
- VO2 Max (Trail Run): Yes
- Realtime Stamina: Yes
- ENDURANCE SCORE: Yes
- Load ratio: Yes
- Training Load: Yes
- Training load focus: Yes
- Training Effect: Yes
- Training Effect (Anaerobic): Yes
- Primary benefit (Training Effect labels): Yes
- Improved Recovery Time: Yes
- Customisable alerts: Yes
- Voice alerts: Yes
- Multisport auto transition: Yes
- Finish time: Yes
- Virtual partner: Yes
- Race an activity: Yes
- Auto multisport activities: Yes
- Multi-sport: Yes
- Garmin Live Segments: Yes
- Strava Live Segments: Yes
- Round-trip course creator (running/cycling): Yes
- Trendline™ Popularity Routing: Yes
- Touch and/or button lock: Yes
- Shortcuts: Yes
- Auto scroll: Yes
- Activity history on watch: Yes
- Physio TrueUp: Yes
- Unified Training Status: Yes

Running features:
- GPS-based distance, time and pace: Yes
- Running dynamics: Yes
- Step speed loss: Yes (with compatible accessory)
- Vertical oscillation and ratio: Yes
- Ground contact time and balance: Yes (GCT balance with accessory)
- Stride length (real time): Yes
- Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute): Yes
- Running tolerance: Yes
- Running economy: Yes (with compatible accessory)
- Running power: Yes
- Grade-adjusted pace: Yes
- Performance condition: Yes
- Lactate threshold: Yes
- PacePro™ Pacing Strategies: Yes
- Run workouts: Yes
- HILL SCORE: Yes
- Trail run auto climb: Yes
- Race predictor: Yes
- Course- and weather-specific race predictor: Yes
- Projected race time: Yes
- Foot pod capable: Yes
- Run/Walk/Stand detection: Yes

Golfing features:
- Preloaded with 43,000 courses worldwide: Yes
- Yardage to F/M/B (distance to front, middle and back of green): Yes
- Yardage to layups/doglegs: Yes
- Measures shot distance (calculates exact yardage for shots from anywhere on course): Automatic
- Digital scorecard: Yes
- Stat tracking (strokes, putts per round, greens and fairways hit): Yes
- Garmin AutoShot™: Yes
- Auto CourseView updates: Yes
- Green View with manual pin position: Yes
- Hazards and course targets: Yes
- PinPointer: Yes
- Handicap scoring: Yes
- Round timer/odometer: Yes
- Automatic club tracking compatible (requires accessory): Yes
- Pairs with Garmin Golf app: Yes
- Tournament legal: Yes

Outdoor recreation:
- Point-to-point navigation: Yes
- Breadcrumb trail in real time: Yes
- Back to start: Yes
- TracBack®: Yes
- UltraTrac mode: Yes
- Explore Nearby: Yes
- Up Ahead: Yes
- NextFork™ navigation: Yes
- Elevation profile: Yes
- Distance to destination: Yes
- Barometric trend indicator with storm alert: Yes
- ClimbPro™ Ascent Planner: Yes
- Vertical speed: Yes
- Total ascent/descent: Yes
- Rest Timer (Ultra Run only): Yes
- Auto Rest: Yes
- Future elevation plot: Yes
- Preloaded road and trail maps: Yes
- Preloaded ski resort maps: Yes
- Downloadable cartography support: Yes
- GPS coordinates: Yes
- Sight ´N Go: Yes
- Area calculation: Yes (via Connect IQ™)
- Fish forecast: Yes (via Connect IQ™)
- Projected waypoint: Yes
- Sun and moon information: Yes
- Expedition GPS Activity: Yes

Cycling features:
- Courses: Yes
- Bike lap and lap maximum power (with power sensor): Yes
- Race an activity: Yes
- Alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goals including time, distance, heart rate or calories): Yes
- FTP (Functional Threshold Power): Yes (with compatible accessory)
- Power curve and % FTP workouts: Yes
- Garmin cycle map (routable cycling-specific street map): Yes
- MTB Grit & Flow: Yes
- Advanced cycling dynamics: Yes
- Compatible with Vector™ and Rally™ (power meters): Yes
- Compatible with Varia Vision™ (head-mounted display): Yes
- Compatible with Varia™ radar (rear-facing radar): Yes
- Compatible with Varia™ lights: Yes
- Compatible with Varia headlight camera: Yes
- Speed and cadence sensor support (w/sensor): Yes
- Power meter compatible: Yes
- Power guide: Yes

Swimming features:
- Open-water swim metrics (distance, pace, stroke count/rate, stroke distance, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories): Yes
- Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories): Yes
- Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly) (pool swim only): Yes
- Drill logging (pool swim only): Yes
- Basic rest timer (up from 0) (pool swim only): Yes
- ´´Repeat on´´ rest timer (pool swim only): Yes
- Auto rest (pool swim only): Yes
- Time and distance alerts: Yes
- Pacing alerts (pool swim only): Yes
- Countdown start: Yes
- Pool swim workouts: Yes
- Critical swim speed: Yes
- Underwater wrist-based heart rate: Yes
- Heart rate from external HRM (real-time during rests, interval and session stats during rests, and automatic heart rate download post-swim): Yes (with HRM-Swim, HRM-Pro or HRM-Pro Plus)

Kid activity tracking features:
- Toe-to-Toe™ Challenges app: Yes (optional Connect IQ Toe-to-Toe™ Challenges app)

Compatible Devices:
- Approach® CT10, full set
- Approach® CT10, Starter Pack
- Atemos 100
- Atemos 100/K 5 Bundle
- Atemos 50 and K 5
- inReach® Messenger
- inReach® Messenger Plus
- inReach® Mini
- inReach® Mini 2
- Rally™ RK100
- Rally™ RK200
- Rally™ RS100
- Rally™ RS200
- Rally™ XC100
- Rally™ XC200
- Tacx® FLUX 2 Smart Trainer
- Tacx® NEO 2T Smart Trainer
- Tacx® NEO 3M Smart Trainer
- Tacx® NEO Bike Plus Trainer
- Varia™ RCT715
- Varia™ RTL515
- Varia™ RVR315
- Varia™ UT800 Smart Headlight

In the box:
- Forerunner 970 GPS running watch
- Charging cable
- Documentation