Forerunner 170 Music GPS Watch

Features

• This easy-to-use GPS running smartwatch includes essential tools such as GPS, pace and distance tracking, and wrist-based heart rate monitoring to help improve your running performance
• Receive personalized daily workout suggestions, including run-walk workouts, that adapt after every run based on your performance and recovery
• Achieve fitness goals, prepare for events, or reach milestones with adaptive training plans that adjust daily using your recovery and health metrics
• Gain deeper insights into your health, training, and recovery through heart rate variability monitoring while you sleep
• Training readiness, training status, and training effect features help you understand your preparedness, progress, and workout benefits
• Download playlists from Spotify, Amazon Music, or Deezer directly to your watch for phone-free listening and make contactless payments with Garmin Pay
• Enjoy up to 10 days of battery life in smartwatch mode and up to 20 hours in GPS mode for continuous health and fitness tracking
• Wake up to a personalized morning report featuring sleep, recovery, calendar events, HRV status, and more
• Get an evening report with your sleep needs, upcoming workout, weather forecast, and scheduled events
• Receive recovery time recommendations that indicate how long to rest before your next intense workout
• Monitor sleep quality with sleep scores, sleep stage tracking, and personalized coaching to improve rest and recovery
• Automatically track or manually log naps to understand their benefits and identify optimal timing and duration
• Monitor your bodys energy levels throughout the day to determine the best times for activity and rest
• Create or import courses through the Garmin Connect app and third-party platforms, then sync them directly to your watch
• Stay race-ready with Course Planner, which lets you add cut-off times, notes, rest plans, checkpoints, and aid stations
• Estimate your potential race times for distances including 5K, 10K, half marathon, and marathon
• Monitor changes in breathing patterns during sleep to gain insights into health, environment, or potential sleep disorders
• Track menstrual cycles or pregnancy while accessing exercise and nutrition guidance tailored to your needs
• Continuously monitor your heart rate day and night to understand activity intensity and overall health
• Improve running efficiency with advanced metrics such as cadence, stride length, and ground contact time
• Track your fitness level over time to set goals, measure progress, and evaluate performance
• Monitor moderate and vigorous activity minutes to help achieve your fitness targets
• Compare your recent training load against the optimal range to support fitness improvement
• Measure blood oxygen saturation levels while awake or asleep
• Create customized running workouts directly on your watch based on desired duration and intensity
• Receive performance alerts and guided workout instructions through connected headphones or your smartphone
• Track stress levels throughout the day to determine whether your body is calm, balanced, or under strain
• Record key health metrics in a two-minute session and generate a report to share with your healthcare provider
• Log habits such as caffeine and alcohol consumption to understand their impact on your health
• Identify trends in health data that may indicate increased physical stress or changes from your normal baseline
• Access free HIIT, strength, cardio, yoga, and Pilates workouts through Garmin Connect or create your own routines
• Monitor daily activity metrics such as steps, calories burned, floors climbed, and more directly from your wrist
• Compare your fitness level to your chronological age with Fitness Age insights
• Improve flexibility and strength with free downloadable mobility workouts
• Use multi-band GNSS support for accurate location tracking, distance measurement, and pace monitoring
• Measure running power in real time to manage effort and optimize training performance
• Choose from more than 80 built-in sports and activity profiles, including cycling, swimming, and strength training
• Plan race-day pacing strategies with personalized pace guidance for selected courses and distances
• Record precise lap distances and view measurements in meters
• Automatically share your live location with designated contacts if an incident is detected or manually triggered
• Allow friends and family to track your location in real time and follow preplanned routes
• Receive emails, text messages, and smartphone notifications directly on your watch when paired with a compatible device
• Send quick text responses from your watch using the keyboard on supported Android devices or through Garmin Messenger
• View health and fitness data, connect with friends, and access additional features through Garmin Connect
• Personalize your watch with downloadable watch faces, data fields, and apps
• Follow turn-by-turn directions from Google Maps on your wrist when navigating with an Android smartphone
• Share saved locations, courses, and workouts with nearby compatible Garmin devices
• Customize display colors, watch faces, and spoken data fields to support accessibility and personal preferences
• Make fast and convenient contactless payments and transit transactions with participating providers