Garmin Forerunner 170 42mm Smartwatch in Whitestone with Whitestone/Cloud Blue Band - 010-03920-01

The Garmin Forerunner 170 Smartwatch: The Ideal Fitness Companion

Reach all your health goals with the Garmin Forerunner 170 smartwatch. Offering up to 10 days of battery, see the full picture for how your body responds after every workout and rest day. From your wrist, this wearable tracks a variety of health metrics, including your heart rate and blood oxygen levels. Keep an eye on your daily activity levels with a glance at the watch face. The 1.2-inch AMOLED touchscreen display is customizable with a range of colors, designs and displayed information. If desired, receive notifications on your Garmin Forerunner 170 model, from texts to emails to alerts.

Built to Go the Distance

The Garmin Forerunner 170 smartwatch is designed for new runners, fitness enthusiasts and everyone in between. Over 80 built-in sports apps track metrics as you jog, swim, bike and more. The integrated GPS assists with distance-based workouts, providing accurate pace measurements as you train for upcoming races. Guide your marathon training sessions with the Race Predictor, which provides an estimate for your potential pace. Take your workouts to the next level with Garmin Coach. In the Garmin Connect™ app, explore personalized training plans built around your metrics and recovery levels. Depending on your daily performance, the selected plan automatically adjusts to match your body's needs.

Maximize Your Training

Get the most out of the Garmin Forerunner 170 smartwatch with the provided morning and evening reports. Your health data is compiled into a comprehensive overview, complete with recovery insights, to help get your body ready for another day of training. And a healthy lifestyle isn’t just about fitness; sleep is just as important. With Sleep Coach, dive into your sleep score and discover ways to improve your sleep quality to ensure your body is ready to handle another day of training. Order your Garmin Forerunner 170 model online or visit our store to see it in person. For further inquires, contact our experts at 800-860-3577 or read our guide to buying a smartwatch.

Features

• 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 notifications1 and garmin pay™ contactless payments²
• What You'll Love
  • 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 rate³.
  • 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 variability³. 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 payments², and receive smart notifications when paired with your smartphone.
• Everything You Need To Dial In
  • 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. And, with paired headphones, hear the data fields spoken from the watch face.
    • Garmin Pay Contactless Payments
      Breeze through checkout lines or transit systems with participating providers.

Footnotes:

• ¹ When paired with your smartphone; see Garmin.com/ble
• ² View current supported country, payment network and issuing bank information
• ³ Activity tracking accuracy
• ⁴ This is not a medical device and is not intended for use in the diagnosis or monitoring of any medical condition; see Garmin.com/ataccuracy. Pulse Ox is not available in all countries.
• ⁵ When paired with your compatible smartphone. For safety and tracking feature requirements and limitations, see Garmin.com/safety.
• ⁶ Requires both the sender and receiver of messages to have the Garmin Messenger app installed on their paired smartphones