Descriptions

About: Garmin Forerunner 170 Sports & Fitness Smartwatch - Slate with Black / Amp Yellow Band

Let ‘Em Know You’re A Runner

Forerunner 170 is the purpose-built GPS running smartwatch with personalized beginner-friendly training plans and advanced training metrics that’ll help you reach your goals. 

• 1.2-inch colorful AMOLED touchscreen display
• Up to 10 days of battery life in smartwatch mode
• Advanced training metrics and recovery insights
• Garmin coach personalized training plans
• 80+ built-in sports apps
• Smart notifications and garmin pay^™ contactless payments

Pace, distance, heart rate

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

Daily suggested workouts

Get workouts made for you. These daily suggestions, now with run-walk workouts, adapt after every run to match your performance and recovery.

Garmin coach adaptive training plans

Train for an event, achieve a milestone, or improve your fitness with training plans that adapt daily based on your recovery and health metrics. Choose from beginner-friendly plans with run-walk workouts and less volume, or pick plans for more intense training.

HRV status

Gain a deeper understanding of your overall health, training and recovery through heart rate variability. Your watch monitors the time variations between consecutive heartbeats while you sleep.

Advanced training features

Training readiness helps you determine if you’re primed to run. Training status lets you know if you’re training productively, and training effect provides you with insight into the primary benefit of your workouts. 

On-the-go features

Pay from your wrist with Garmin pay contactless payments, and receive smart notifications when paired with your smartphone.

Plan: 

• Long Battery Life: With up to 10 days in smartwatch mode and up to 20 hours in GPS mode, you’ll get a more complete picture of your health and training.
• Morning Report: Receive an overview of your sleep, recovery, daily calendar, HRV status 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.
• Recovery Time: Know how long to recover before your next high-effort workout based on your latest training.
• Sleep Coach: Get a sleep score and personalized coaching for how much sleep you need. Track sleep stages, and get insights to improve sleep quality3.
• Nap Detection: Automatically track or log your naps to see how they benefit your body and what their ideal time and duration should be.
• Body Battery™ Energy Monitoring: Track your body’s energy levels throughout the day to find the best times for activity and rest3.
• Courses: Create or find existing courses in the Garmin Connect™ app and from third-party platforms, then sync them directly to your watch.
• Course Planner: Prepare for what’s to come with course planner. This feature lets you add cut-off times, notes, rest plans, checkpoints and aid stations to keep you on track throughout the race.
• Race Predictor: Get an estimate of what your pace could be for a 5K, 10K, half marathon and marathon.
• Breathing Variations: Have a better understanding of your health with insights into shifts in your breathing patterns as you sleep4. These shifts could be related to environment, alcohol or potential sleep disorders such as sleep apnea.
• Women’s Health Tracking: Track and log your menstrual cycle or pregnancy, and get exercise and nutrition education.

Prepare:

• Wrist-Based Heart Rate: The watch constantly samples your heart rate day and night and helps you gauge how hard you work during activities3.
• Wrist-Based Running Dynamics: Improve your form with running metrics such as cadence, stride length, ground contact time and more.
• Vo2 Max: See your current fitness level, and track changes over time to set goals, evaluate progress and more.
• Intensity Minutes: Track your moderate and vigorous activity minutes to help meet your goals.
• Acute Load: Compare your recent training load to the optimal range to help improve your fitness.
• Pulse Ox Sensor: Track your blood oxygen saturation while you’re awake or asleep4.
• Quick Workout: Create running workouts directly on your watch based on desired time and intensity level.
• Voice Alerts: Get alerts to know how you’re performing (when paired with your smartphone).
• Stress Tracking: Find out if you’re having a calm, balanced or stressful day.
• Health Snapshot: Log a 2-minute session to record key health stats, then generate a report to share with your health care provider.
• Lifestyle Logging: Log behaviors — such as caffeine and alcohol intake — and view reports on how they impact your health in the Garmin Connect app.
• Health Status: Look for changes in your health data that could indicate added stress to your body, so you can know when you’re trending away from your usual range.
• Cross Training: Browse Garmin Connect for free HIIT, strength, cardio, yoga and Pilates workouts. You can even build your own in the app and send to your watch.
• Activity Tracking: Keep tabs on your daily steps, calories burned, floors climbed and more from your wrist3.
• Fitness Age: Estimate how fit you are compared to your actual age.
• Mobility: Increase your flexibility and strength with free downloadable mobility workouts.

Perform:

• Built-In Gnss: Our built-in GNSS supports multiple satellite systems, so you track where you run and record key stats, including distance and pace.
• 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.
• Built-In Sports Apps: Tap in to 80+ built-in activities, including cycling, open-water swimming, strength training and more.
• Pacepro™ Feature: Plan race-day strategy with pace guidance for a selected course or distance.
• Track Running: Record accurate lap distances, and see your distances in meters.

Connect: 

• Safety And Tracking: If your watch senses that an incident occurred, it will send a message with your live location5. Or if you feel unsafe, you can do it manually.
• Livetrack™ Location Sharing: Friends and family can follow your real-time location5 and view preplanned courses.
• Smart Notifications: Receive emails, texts and alerts on your watch when paired with your iPhone® or Android™ smartphone.
• On-Wrist Texting: Use the keyboard to send quick text responses on your paired watch (Android only or through the Garmin Messenger™ app6) so you can keep your phone in your pocket.
• 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.
• Google Maps™ App: Enter your destination in Google Maps on your Android smartphone, then follow turn-by-turn directions on your wrist.
• Garmin Share: Sync up with friends by sharing saved locations, courses and workouts with other nearby compatible devices.
• Color Filters And Watch Face Customization: Get color display options — including gray scale, red/green, green/red or blue/yellow — to assist with various forms of color blindness. Choose from various watch faces with customizable data and colors.
• Garmin Pay Contactless Payments: Breeze through checkout lines or transit systems with participating providers.

Product Highlights:

• Sleep score and insights
• Battery life (smartwatch mode): Up to 10 days
• Pulse Ox blood oxygen: yes (spot-check, and optional all-day and in sleep)
• Garmin Pay™
• Training readiness
• Training status
• Watch display type: AMOLED (optional always-on mode)
• Touchscreen
• Watch water rating: 5 ATM

Specifications:

Daily smart features

• Find My Phone
• Find My Garmin (helps locate lost device)
• Find My Phone during GPS activity
• Connectivity: Bluetooth®, ANT+®
• 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
• Evening report
• Calendar
• Weather forecasts
• Realtime settings sync with Garmin Connect™ mobile
• Battery saver (customizable low power watch)
• Controls smartphone music
• Compatible with Garmin Messenger app
• Smart trainer control
• Pairs with Garmin Connect™ mobile
• Smartphone compatibility: iPhone®, Android™
• Stocks
• Color shift
• Red shift mode
• Garmin Share
• Passcode
• Calculator
• Color filters
• Hourly alert 

Activity Profiles:

• Gym: Strength, HIIT, Cardio, Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, Floor Climbing, Indoor Rowing, Jump Roping
• Wellness: Walking, Pilates, Yoga, Indoor Walking, Mobility, Breathwork
• Indoor running: Treadmill Running, Indoor Track Running, Virtual Running
• Outdoor running: Running, Outdoor Track Running, Trail Running, Ultra Running, Obstacle Racing
• Outdoor recreation: Hiking, Rucking, Mountaineering, Horseback Riding, Disc Golf, Archery
• Cycling: Biking, Road Biking, Mountain Biking, Gravel Biking, Bike Commuting, Bike Touring, eBiking, eMountain Biking, Indoor Biking, Cyclocross
• Swim: Pool Swimming, Open Water Swimming
• On the water: Stand Up Paddleboarding, Rowing, Kayaking, Snorkeling
• Motor sports: Motorcycling, Overlanding, Motocrossing, ATVing, Snowmobiling
• Racket sports: Tennis, Pickleball, Badminton, Squash, Table Tennis, Padel, Platform Tennis, Racquetball
• Snow and winter: Skiing, Snowboarding, XC Classic Skiing, XC Skate Skiing, Ice Skating, Snowshoeing
• Team sports: Basketball, Volleyball, Field Hockey, Ice Hockey, Football/Soccer, American Football, Lacrosse, Rugby, Ultimate Disc, Cricket, Softball, Baseball
• In the ring: Boxing, Mixed Martial Arts
• Other activity profiles: Inline Skating

Features: 

• Workout and training plans: Daily suggested workout - running (pace and heart rate based), Garmin running coach, Garmin running coach experts, Garmin cycling coach, Garmin coach - prebuilt cycling plans, Garmin coach - strength, Garmin fitness coach, Cardio workouts, Strength workouts, HIIT workouts, Yoga workouts, Pilates workouts, On-screen workout muscle maps
• 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), Move alert movement options, 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 yes (optional Connect IQ app), Automatic rep counting
• Training, planning and analysis features: Improved interval (includes open repeats, intervals data page, rest screen and auto detection), 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) yes (with compatible accessory), 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), Load ratio, Training load, Training load focus, Training effect, Training effect (anaerobic), Primary benefit (training effect labels), Custom alerts, Voice alerts, Finish time, Race an activity, Touch and/or button lock, Shortcuts, Activity history on watch, Physio TrueUp, Unified training status
• Running features: GPS-based distance, time and pace, Running dynamics, Vertical oscillation and ratio, Ground contact time and balance yes (GCT balance with accessory), Stride length (real time), Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute), Running power, Grade-adjusted pace, PacePro™ pacing strategies, Run workouts, Quick workout, Race predictor, Course- and weather-specific race predictor, Foot pod capable, Run/walk/stand detection
• Outdoor recreation: UltraTrac mode, Elevation profile, Distance to destination, Vertical speed, Total ascent/descent, Rest timer (ultra run only), Auto rest, Future elevation plot, Sun and moon information
• Mapping & navigation: Point-to-point navigation, Bread crumb trail in real time, Back to start, TracBack®, Up ahead
• Cycling features: Courses, Bike lap and lap maximum power (with power sensor), Race an activity, Alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goals including time, distance, heart rate or calories), Compatible with Vector™ and Rally™ (power meters), Compatible with Varia™ radar (rear-facing radar), Compatible with Varia™ lights, Compatible with Varia™ headlight camera, Speed and cadence sensor support (w/sensor), Power meter compatible 
• 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), Pool swim workouts, Underwater wrist-based heart rate, Heart rate from external HRM (real-time during rests, interval and session stats during rests, and automatic heart rate download post-swim)

What's in the Box:

• Forerunner 170 GPS running watch
• Charging cable
• Documentation