Tracking your progress has never been easier with the easy-to-use Garmin Forerunner 170 GPS running smartwatch. Easily keep an eye on your pace, distance, and heart rate thanks to the colorful 1.2-inch AMOLED touchscreen display. Utilize the intuitive Garmin Coach feature to stay on top of your running by creating adaptive training plans to reach your goals.

Start your day with a morning report filled with important health insights along with a summary of sleep, recovery, and your training outlook. The Garmin training effect and training effect labels are included as well to see how your workouts are affecting your fitness. From there, check your recovery time for an estimate of how long to rest between your workouts.

The Garmin Forerunner 170 helps you stay connected by easily pairing with your smartphone to conveniently display your important notifications on your wrist. With up to 10 days of battery life in smartwatch mode, this GPS running smartwatch will keep you going longer.

Features & Benefits:

Plan:

• Morning Report: Receive and overview of your sleep, recovery, HRV status, and daily calendar
• Evening Report: Prepare for tomorrow with a reminder of your sleep and recovery needs, weather, and events
• Garmin Coach: Free adaptive 5k, 10k, and half marathon training advice from expert coaches
• Recovery Time: Know how long to recover after a high-effort workout
• Courses: Find existing routes or create them in the Garmin Connect App
• Course Planner: Add cut-off times, notes, rest plans, checkpoints, and aid stations to easily track your race
• Race Predictor: Get an estimate of what your pace could be for a 5K, 10K, half marathon, and marathon
• Sleep Monitoring: Understand how your body is recovering with your personalized sleep score
• Sleep Coach: Get a sleep score and personalized coaching to improve sleep quality
• Nap detection: Automatically track and log naps to see the effect on your body
• Body Battery™ Energy Monitoring: Track your body’s activity levels to find the best time for workouts or activities
• Breathing Variations: Get a deeper insight into your health by monitoring shifts in breathing patterns throughout the day
• Women’s Health Monitoring: Track and log mestrual cycle or pregnancy along with exercise and nutrition advice

Prepare:

• Wrist-based Running Dynamics: Measures crucial running metrics such as cadence, stride length, ground contact time, and more
• Wrist-based Heart Rate: Tracked throughout your workouts and recovery
• Acute Load: Compare your recent training load to the optimal range to improve your fitness
• Training Effect: See how your workouts affect your endurance, speed, and power
• Performance Condition: While you run, get a real-time assessment of pace and heart rate
• VO2 Max: See your current fitness level and see how it changes over time
• Intensity Minutes: Track your moderate and vigorous activity minutes
• Health Snapshot: Record key health stats to generate a report to share with your healthcare provider
• Stress Tracking: Stay on top of when you’re having a calm, balanced, or stressful day
• Lifestyle Logging: Log behaviors and habits to see how they impact your health
• Pulse Ox: Track your blood oxygen saturation while awake or asleep
• Cross Training: Comes preloaded with free HIIT, strength, cardio, yoga and Pilates workouts
• Activity Tracking: Keep tabs on your daily steps, calories burned, and floors climbed
• Fitness Age: Estimates how fit you are compared to your actual age
• Mobility: Increase flexibility and strength with free downloadable workouts
• Voice Alerts: Get vocal alerts on how you’re performing in the moment (when paired with a smart phone) 

Perform:

• Wrist-based Running Power: See how much power you’re applying to the trail or road to manage your training load effectively
• Multi-Band GPS: Get premium position tracking and optimized battery life with built-in GNSS satellite systems
• PacePro Feature: Plan race-day strategy with GPS guidance for selected course or distance
• Built-In Sports Apps: Over 80+ built-in activities include running, cycling, open-water swimming, strength training, trail running, and more.
• Track Running:  Allows for accurate lap measuring and displays distance in meters

Connect:

• GarminPay™: For easy, contactless payment
• Smart Notifications: See email, text, and other alerts when paired with your phone
• Google Maps App: Enter your destination in Google Maps and receive turn-by-turn directions on your wrist
• 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 watch
• Safety and Tracking: If your watch senses an incident occurred, it will send a message with your live location. Or, you can send it manually if you feel unsafe
• LiveTrack Location Sharing: Friends and family can follow your real-time location and view preplanned courses
• On-Wrist Texting: Use the keyboard to send quick text responses on your paired watch
• Garmin Share: Sync up with friends to share saved locations, courses and other workouts with compatible devices