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Garmin Forerunner 970, carbon gray watch, front
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Garmin Forerunner 970, titanium whitestone watch, front
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Garmin Forerunner 970, soft gold and french gray watch, front
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Garmin Forerunner 970, carbon gray watch, front
Garmin Forerunner 970, carbon gray watch, back
Garmin Forerunner 970, titanium whitestone watch, front
Garmin Forerunner 970, titanium whitestone watch, back
Garmin Forerunner 970, soft gold and french gray watch, front
Garmin Forerunner 970, soft gold and french gray watch, back

Garmin Forerunner 970 Premium Running Smartwatch

by Garmin
$749.99 - $749.99
$749.99
$749.99 - $749.99
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Forerunner 970

Garmin Forerunner 970 Premium Running Smartwatch

The Garmin Forerunner 970 Premium Running Smartwatch is a running smartwatch with a sapphire lens over its AMOLED display and a titanium bezel. Hands-free voice control lets you talk to the watch when paired with your compatible smartphone. Dynamic round-trip routing plots a new loop of the same distance if you wander off course. Music and maps share the watch on a long day out. Finishes are Carbon Gray DLC titanium with Black, Titanium with Whitestone or Soft Gold titanium with French Gray.

For performance-driven runners, there's Forerunner 970, the GPS running and triathlon smartwatch with Garmin's brightest AMOLED display, durable sapphire lens and lightweight titanium bezel. Use the built-in LED flashlight for greater awareness when you head out before the sun's up or stay out past dark. With the HRM 600 monitor (sold separately), understand your overall energy efficiency with running economy. See how much you are slowing down when your foot hits the ground with step speed 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 to avoid overload and improve. Use multi-band GPS and full-color, built-in maps plus improved navigation to stay on track while you train. Forerunner 970 is ready to go as long as you are, with up to 15 days of battery life in smartwatch 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).

MEMORY
32 GB
maps, music and history
WATER
5 ATM
water rating
LENS
Sapphire
sapphire crystal
BANDS
22 mm
QuickFit compatible
Hands-free voice control WhatsApp replies with your phone Garmin Share
Garmin Forerunner 970, Titanium bezel with a Whitestone band

Morning and evening reports

How it works

Training readiness
At the start of the day you see training readiness, a daily score built from your sleep, recovery and recent training load; a low score suggests keeping the run easy.
Morning report
The morning report, a summary of your sleep, recovery and planned training when you wake, adds the day's weather before the first run.
Evening report
Before bed, the evening report reminds you how much sleep you need and what tomorrow's workout is.
HRV status
Skin temperature sits beside HRV status, which tracks the variation in time between heartbeats while you sleep. With recent training, it shapes training status, which reads HRV status and recent training to label it productive, peaking or strained.

Forerunner 970 race season

Key features

Dynamic round-trip routing
A new loop of the same mileage if you stray
Garmin Coach
Adaptive plans for running, triathlon, cycling or strength
Multisport workouts
Built step by step in Garmin Connect
Triathlon profiles
Automatic splits, or build your own
Recommended weekly mileage
From running tolerance, to avoid overload
Garmin Pay
Contactless payments from the wrist
Music
Songs and playlists on the watch
Safety and tracking
Incident detection and LiveTrack

Titanium outside, sensors underneath

How to use it

Garmin Forerunner 970, Soft Gold titanium bezel with French Gray
Build

Titanium and sapphire

The 1.4-inch touchscreen is AMOLED, a display where each pixel makes its own light, at 454 x 454 pixels with an optional always-on mode. Titanium surrounds it, button controls work alongside the touch, and the lens is sapphire crystal for durability.

The case measures 47 x 47 x 12.9 mm, weighs 56 g and fits wrists with a circumference of 135 to 205 mm.

  • Titanium, Whitestone; Carbon Gray DLC titanium with black; Soft Gold titanium with French Gray
  • Silicone strap on a QuickFit 22 mm fitting
  • Color filters for the display
Garmin Forerunner 970, sensor array on the Carbon Gray case back
Health

An ECG from your wrist

The Garmin ECG app can record your heart rhythm and check for signs of atrial fibrillation. It records an ECG similar to a Lead I ECG, is not available in all regions, and is only intended for adults aged 22 years and over.

Body Battery, an estimate of your energy reserves through the day, runs alongside Health Status.

  • Ground contact time and balance (with compatible accessory)
  • Skin temperature tracking and HRV status
  • Sleep coach, sleep alignment and a smart wake alarm
  • Body Battery and Health Status

Forerunner 970 explained

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Frequently asked questions

The Forerunner 970 GPS running watch, a charging cable and documentation.
Up to 14 hours of GPS tracking with music playing.
Adults aged 22 years and over, in regions where the Garmin ECG app is available. It records an ECG similar to a Lead I ECG and needs the latest Garmin Connect app and watch software.
Once the 970 is paired with your compatible smartphone, it shows smart notifications, shares LiveTrack locations and runs the safety and tracking features. Voice calls and texts go through that phone, and WhatsApp replies need the WhatsApp mobile app on it.
Download songs and playlists from Spotify, Amazon Music or Deezer for phone-free listening (subscription may be required).
Road, trail and ski resort maps come preloaded, stored in 32 GB of memory with your music and activity history. Multi-band GPS, which receives more than one frequency from each satellite, keeps your position on them accurate.
Yes. Garmin Coach covers running, triathlon, cycling or strength plans, and triathlon profiles handle the splits automatically.
Garmin backs it with a one-year limited warranty from the date of purchase against defects in materials or workmanship, and Garmin repairs or replaces defective components.
  • Battery life: Smartwatch mode: up to 15 days; GPS-only: up to 26 hours; SatIQ (AutoSelect): up to 23 hours; All-Systems + Multi-Band: up to 21 hours; GPS-only with music: up to 14 hours; SatIQ with music: up to 13 hours; All-Systems + Multi-Band with music: up to 12 hours
  • Display: AMOLED touchscreen (optional always-on mode) with sapphire lens; 1.4 in. (35.3 mm) diameter; 454 x 454 pixels
  • Bezel material: Titanium
  • Lens material: Sapphire crystal
  • Strap material: Silicone
  • 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
  • Water rating: 5 ATM
  • Weight: 56 g
  • Memory: 32 GB
  • Built-in mapping: Yes (preloaded road, trail and ski resort maps)
  • LED flashlight: Yes
  • Garmin ECG app: Yes (records an ECG similar to a Lead I ECG; not available in all regions; adults aged 22 years and over)
  • Running economy: Yes (with the HRM 600, sold separately)
  • Step speed loss: Yes (with the HRM 600, sold separately)
  • Ground contact time and balance: Yes (GCT balance with accessory)
  • Make calls and send texts via voice: Yes (with paired compatible smartphone)
  • Sensors: GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS, BeiDou, SatIQ, Garmin Elevate wrist heart rate monitor, Pulse Ox, barometric altimeter, compass, gyroscope, thermometer, ambient light sensor
  • Connectivity: Bluetooth, ANT+, Wi-Fi
  • Includes: Forerunner 970 GPS running watch, charging cable, documentation
  • Country of origin: Made in Taiwan. Cable made in Taiwan or China.
  • Running economy: Measure your overall energy efficiency while running, including 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: On city streets or densely covered trails, the Forerunner 970 smartwatch provides full-color, built-in mapping that is easy 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, 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.
  • Design: Garmin's brightest AMOLED touchscreen display with button controls, a lightweight titanium bezel and sapphire lens, plus a built-in LED flashlight for greater awareness in the dark during early morning or late-night runs.
  • Battery for days: Up to 15 days of battery life in smartwatch mode and up to 26 hours in GPS mode for a more complete picture of your training and recovery.
  • Morning report: Wake up to your morning report with an overview of sleep, recovery and training outlook alongside HRV status, training readiness and weather.
  • Evening report: Prepare for tomorrow before bed with a reminder of sleep need, tomorrow's workout, weather and more.
  • 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.
  • Multisport workouts: Create custom step-by-step multisport workouts in Garmin Connect, and send them to your watch to be executed smoothly from sport to sport.
  • Wrist-based running dynamics/power: This smartwatch measures running metrics such as cadence, stride length, ground contact time, and more. It also measures running power so you can precisely manage your effort.
  • Triathlon and multisport profiles: Automatically record splits with built-in profiles for triathlons, 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, get insight into training effectiveness with training status, and see if you're training productively, peaking or strained.
  • Pulse Ox: Pulse Ox blood oxygen saturation monitor among the wrist sensors. This is not a medical device and is not intended for use in the diagnosis or monitoring of any medical condition.
  • ECG app: The Garmin ECG app can record your heart rhythm and check for signs of atrial fibrillation (records an ECG similar to a Lead I ECG; not available in all regions; only intended for adults aged 22 years and over).
  • Forerunner 970 GPS running watch
  • Charging cable
  • Documentation



Overall rating: 5.0 / 5 from 3 reviews.

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"Love it"

— Joseph (5/5)

Great Upgrade!

"upgraded from Forerunner 955. Much better screen and very capable watch. Very happy with the upgrade"

— Derek C. (5/5)

Exceptional watch

"So far the Best Garmin Watch i have had. No better option for a runner"

— Jose L. (5/5)

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