Descriptions

About: Garmin Forerunner 165 Sports and Fitness Smartwatch – Berry / Lilac

Train Brilliantly

You don’t just run. You’ve moved beyond that. Which is why you need Forerunner 165 Music — the purpose-built GPS running smartwatch that helps you meet your goals with personalized adaptive training plans and a bright display to light up your progress.

• 1.2” colorful AMOLED display
• Up to 11 days of battery life in smartwatch mode
• Training metrics and recovery insights
• 25+ built-in GPS and indoor sports apps
• Touchscreen and buttons
• Music on your wrist

Pace, Distance, Heart Rate

This easy-to-use GPS running smartwatch provides the essential features you need to take your running to the next level — including GPS, pace, distance and wrist-based heart rate1.

Daily Suggested Workouts

Get workouts made for you. They adapt after every run to match your performance and recovery as well as the races coming up in your Garmin Connect™ smartphone app calendar. 

Garmin Coach

Get free adaptive 5K, 10K and half-marathon training plans from expert coaches to help you take on a new challenge.

Race Adaptive Training

Get ready for your race with training tips, personalized daily suggested workouts and completion time predictions based on race details you enter into Garmin Connect.

HRV Status

Gain a deeper understanding of your overall health, training and recovery through heart rate variability while you sleep, based on technology developed by our Firstbeat Analytics™ team.

Morning Report

Receive an overview of your sleep1 and training outlook as soon as you wake up — alongside HRV status and weather. You can even customize your report to show you what you want to see.

Training Effect

With training effect, you can see how your workouts impact your fitness and understand the primary benefit from training runs and workouts.

Plan:

• Long Battery Life: Power through your week with up to 11 days in smartwatch mode and up to 19 hours in GPS mode, ensuring a complete picture of your health and training.
• Recovery Time: Optimize your performance by knowing exactly how long to rest before your next high-effort workout, factoring in overall stress, sleep, and daily activity.
• Sleep Monitoring and Sleep Score: Gain a deeper understanding of your recovery with a detailed breakdown of sleep stages and actionable insights to improve your overall sleep quality.
• Body Battery™ Energy Monitoring: Track your body’s energy levels throughout the day to identify the perfect windows for activity and restorative rest, including the impact of naps and stress.
• Courses: Seamlessly sync custom or existing courses from the Garmin Connect app and third-party platforms directly to your wrist.
• Race Predictor: Receive accurate pace estimates for race distances ranging from 5K to a full marathon.
• Nap Detection: Automatically track naps to understand how they benefit your body and determine your ideal rest duration.
• Breathing Variations: Monitor shifts in your breathing patterns while you sleep, which can provide early insights into environmental factors, alcohol intake, or potential sleep disruptions.
• Women’s Health Tracking: Log and track your menstrual cycle or pregnancy, paired with tailored exercise and nutrition education.

Prepare:

• Wrist-Based Heart Rate: Stay informed with constant heart rate monitoring, allowing you to gauge effort levels accurately, day and night.
• Wrist-Based Running Dynamics: Refine your form with precise measurements of cadence, stride length, and ground contact time.
• VO2 Max: Monitor your evolving fitness level over time to set benchmarks and evaluate your progress.
• Intensity Minutes: Track your moderate and vigorous activity levels to ensure you are meeting your weekly wellness goals.
• Audio Prompts: Receive real-time performance alerts and guided workout instructions directly through your headphones.
• Stress Tracking: Stay balanced by monitoring your daily stress levels to determine if you are having a calm or demanding day.
• Pulse Ox Sensor: Keep tabs on your blood oxygen saturation levels, both while you are awake and during sleep.
• Cross Training: Access dozens of free HIIT, strength, cardio, yoga, and Pilates workouts, or create your own custom sessions in the Garmin Connect app.
• Health Snapshot: Record a 2-minute session to capture key health stats and generate an easy-to-share report for your healthcare provider.
• Lifestyle Logging: Log daily behaviors like caffeine and alcohol intake to analyze their specific impact on your health reports.
• Activity Tracking: Monitor your daily movement, including steps, calories burned, and floors climbed.
• Fitness Age: Get a clear estimate of your fitness level compared to your actual age to stay motivated.

Perform:

• Built-In GNSS: Connect to multiple satellite systems for highly accurate tracking of your runs, distance, and pace.
• Wrist-Based Running Power: Gain insight into the physical power you apply to the road or trail, helping you manage effort during training.
• Built-In Sports Apps: Tap into 25+ preloaded activity profiles, including cycling, open-water swimming, and strength training.
• Track Running: Record precise lap distances with accuracy, viewed in meters.
• PacePro™ Feature: Master your race-day strategy with GPS-based pace guidance tailored to your selected course or distance.

Connect:

• Music: Enjoy phone-free listening by downloading playlists from Spotify, Deezer, Amazon Music, or YouTube® Music to your watch.
• Safety and Tracking: Maintain peace of mind with automatic incident detection that sends your live location, or use manual assistance if you feel unsafe.
• Garmin Pay™ Contactless Payments: Breeze through checkout lines at participating retailers and transit systems.
• Smart Notifications: Stay connected by receiving emails, texts, and alerts directly on your wrist when paired with your smartphone.
• LiveTrack Feature: Allow friends and family to follow your real-time location and view your preplanned courses.
• Garmin Trails: Access thousands of trails for offline use, supported by subscriptions to Garmin Connect+ or Outdoor Maps+ (available in select areas).
• Garmin Connect App: Use the central hub to review your health and fitness data, connect with friends, and participate in community challenges.
• Connect IQ™ Store: Personalize your device by adding custom watch faces, data fields, and apps.
• Google Maps™ App: Navigate with confidence; enter your destination in the Google Maps app on your Android™ phone and follow turn-by-turn directions right on your wrist.
• Garmin Share: Effortlessly share your saved locations, courses, and workouts with other nearby compatible Garmin devices.

Product Highlights:

• Sleep score and insights
• Battery life (smartwatch mode): Up to 11 days
• Pulse Ox blood oxygen: yes (spot-check, during sleep, all day)
• Garmin Pay™
• Music storage
• Watch display type: AMOLED (optional always-on mode)
• Touchscreen
• Watch water rating 5 ATM

Specifications:

• Strap material: silicone
• Lens Material: chemically strengthened glass
• Bezel Material: fiber-reinforced polymer
• Quick Release bands: yes (20 mm, Industry standard)
• Physical size: 43 x 43 x 11.6 mm (Fits wrists with a circumference of 126-203 mm)
• Weight: 39 g
• Display Size 1.2" (30.4 mm) diameter
• Display Resolution 390 x 390 pixels
• Color display
• Large font option
• Battery type Lithium ion
• Battery life
• Smartwatch mode: Up to 11 days
• Battery Saver Smartwatch mode: Up to 20 days
• GPS-Only GNSS mode: Up to 19 hours
• All-Systems GNSS mode: Up to 17 hours
• GPS-Only GNSS mode with music: Up to 7 hours
• All-Systems GNSS mode with music: Up to 6.5 hours
• Charging method Garmin proprietary plug charger
• Memory/History 4 GB
• Clock Features: Time/date, GPS Time Sync, Automatic daylight saving time, Alarm clock, Timer, Stopwatch, Sunrise/sunset times
• Health & Wellness Monitoring: Heart rate (constant, every second), Resting heart rate, Abnormal heart rate alerts (high and low), Respiration rate, Fitness age, Body Battery™ energy monitor, All-day stress, Relaxation reminders, Relaxation breathing timer, Meditation, Breathwork, Sleep (advanced), Breathing variations, Nap detection, Hydration (in Garmin Connect™ and optional Connect IQ™ widget), Women's health (in Garmin Connect™ and optional Connect IQ™ widget), Health snapshot
• Sensors: GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, Garmin Elevate™ wrist heart rate monitor, Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation Monitor, Barometric altimeter, Compass, Accelerometer, Thermometer, Ambient light sensor

Daily Smart Features:

• Find My Phone
• Find My Garmin (helps locate lost device)
• Find My Phone during GPS activity
• Connectivity: Bluetooth®, ANT+®, Wi-Fi®
• Connect IQ™ (downloadable watch faces, data fields and apps)
• On-device Connect IQ™ Store
• Smart Notifications
• Text response/reject phone call with text (Android™ only)
• View images from notifications on watch (Android™ only)
• Morning report
• Calendar
• Weather forecasts
• Realtime settings sync with Garmin Connect™ mobile
• Battery saver (customizable low power watch)
• Controls smartphone music
• Plays and controls watch music
• Compatible with Garmin Messenger app
• Pairs with Garmin Connect™ Mobile
• Smartphone compatibility: iPhone®, Android™
• Red shift mode
• Garmin Share
• Passcode

Activity Profiles:

• Gym: Strength, HIIT, Cardio, Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, Floor Climbing
• Wellness: Walking, Pilates, Yoga, Indoor Walking
• Indoor Running: Treadmill Running, Indoor Track Running, Virtual Running
• Outdoor Running: Running, Outdoor Track Running, Trail Running, Ultra Running
• Outdoor Recreation: Hiking
• Cycling: Biking, Indoor Biking
• Swim: Pool Swimming, Open Water Swimming
• Racket Sports: Tennis, Pickleball, Padel

Features:

• Workout and Training Plans: Daily Suggested Workout - Running (Pace and Heart Rate Based), Garmin Running Coach (no strength add-on), Garmin Running Coach Experts, Garmin Coach - Prebuilt Cycling Plans, Cardio workouts, Strength workouts, HIIT workouts, Yoga workouts, Pilates workouts
• Safety and Tracking Features: Incident detection during select activities, Incident detection alert on phone for wearables, Assistance, Live Event Sharing, Android™ Only
• Activity Tracking Features: Step counter, Move alerts (displays on device after a period of inactivity), Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal), Calories burned, Floors climbed, Distance traveled, Intensity minutes, TrueUp™, Move IQ™, Garmin Connect™ Challenges app (optional Connect IQ app), Automatic rep counting
• Training, Planning and Analysis Features: Customizable data pages, Downloadable training plans, Course guidance, HR zones, HR alerts, HR calories, % HR max, % HRR, Recovery time, Auto max HR, Race glance/widget, HRV status, HR broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+® to paired devices), Respiration rate (during exercise; Yoga and Breathwork only), GPS speed and distance, Customizable activity profiles, Auto Pause® automatic timer halt, Interval training, Advanced workouts, HRM running pace and distance, Auto Lap® interval tracking feature, Manual lap, Rest timer, Configurable lap alerts, VO2 Max (Run), VO2 Max (Trail Run), Training effect, Training effect (anaerobic), Primary benefit (Training Effect labels), Voice alerts, Finish time, Touch and/or button lock, Activity history on watch, Physio TrueUp
• Running Features: GPS-based distance, time and pace, Running dynamics, Vertical oscillation and ratio, Ground contact time and balance (but not balance), Stride length (real time), Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute), Running power, PacePro™ Pacing Strategies, Run workouts, Race predictor, Course- and weather-specific race predictor, Foot pod capable, Run/Walk/Stand detection
• Outdoor Recreation: Point-to-point navigation, Bread crumb trail in real time, Back to start, TracBack®, UltraTrac mode, Elevation profile, Distance to destination, Total ascent/descent, Rest Timer (Ultra Run only), Auto rest, Future elevation plot, Area calculation (via Connect IQ™), Fish forecast (via Connect IQ™), Sun and moon information (via Connect IQ™)
• Cycling Features: Courses, Alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goals including time, distance, heart rate or calories), Compatible with Varia™ radar (rear-facing radar), Compatible with Varia™ lights, Compatible with Varia headlight camera, Speed and cadence sensor support (w/sensor)
• Swimming Features: Open-water swim metrics (distance, pace, stroke count/rate, stroke distance, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories), Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories), Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly) (pool swim only), Drill logging (pool swim only), Basic rest timer (up from 0) (pool swim only), "Repeat on" rest timer (pool swim only), Auto rest (pool swim only), Time and distance alerts, Countdown start (pool swim only), Underwater wrist-based heart rate