Garmin Forerunner 970 Smartwatch 47mm Carbon Gray DLC Titanium Case with Black/Translucent Whitestone Band - 010-02969-00

Garmin Forerunner 970 47mm Smartwatch in Carbon Gray

Take your fitness tracking to the next level with the Garmin Forerunner 970 smartwatch. This impressive smartwatch is designed for serious runners and endurance athletes. Packed with features that go beyond standard fitness tracking, this smartwatch monitors your health and integrates advanced training analytics to assess your ability to perform. With precise GPS tracking, the Garmin Forerunner 970 is great for running enthusiasts who want performance and real-time tracking.

Performance & Training Features

Equipped with features to improve your performance, the Garmin Forerunner 970 takes your training to the next level. With Running Economy, the smartwatch assesses your runs by analyzing your stride length and step speed loss. The Running Tolerance feature calculates how much training your body can handle and gives you a personalized weekly cap to avoid overtraining. Whether you're training for an event or trying to hit a personal goal, the Garmin Coach gives you a personalized plan on how to train based on your performance, health metrics and recovery. By analyzing your workout habits and monitoring your health, the Garmin Forerunner 970 makes sure you're ready for any fitness challenge.

Wellness Features

The Garmin Forerunner 970 not only monitors your workouts, but also tracks your sleep and stress. With quality features such as a personalized sleep coach and skin temperature tracking, you get real-time suggestions based on your health. HRV status gives you a deeper understanding of your health, showing you a detailed picture of your stress, recovery and health. In case of emergency, the smartwatch detects incidents and sends your live location in case of a fall or emergency. Using the Garmin Connect App, you can view your health and fitness information and connect with friends and family. For competitive runners, the Garmin Forerunner 970 smartwatch is a great choice to improve your fitness. If you want to learn more, give us a call at 800-860-3577 to speak with one of our experts and check out our smartwatch buying guide for additional information.

Features

What You'll Love

• Running Economy
  Measure your overall energy efficiency while running — using long-term running volume, stride length and step speed loss, which tells you how much you slow down when your foot hits the ground — when you pair your watch with the HRM 600 monitor (sold separately).
• Running Tolerance
  Better understand the impact each run has on your body, and get a recommended weekly maximum mileage so you can keep training effectively without taking on too much.
• Full-Color Mapping
  Whether you’re running on city streets or riding densely covered trails, the Forerunner 970 smartwatch provides full-color, built-in mapping — now even more dynamic, intuitive and simpler to follow.
• Garmin Coach Adaptive Training Plans
  Train for an event, achieve a milestone, or improve your fitness with Garmin Coach training plans for running, triathlon, cycling or strength. Select plans adapt daily for personalized workouts based on your performance, recovery and health metrics.
• Training Readiness
  From the moment you wake up, get a readiness score based on your sleep quality, recovery, training load and more, so you can determine whether it’s a good day to go hard — or take it easy.
• Built-In Speaker and Microphone
  Make and take phone calls from your watch when it’s paired to your smartphone. Plus, control watch functions with voice command — or use your smartphone’s voice assistant to respond to text messages and more.

Plan

• Morning Report
  Get a customizable overview of your sleep, training outlook, HRV status, weather and more as soon as you wake up¹.
• Evening Report
  Prepare for tomorrow before bed with a reminder of sleep need, tomorrow’s workout, weather and events.
• Turn-By-Turn Directions
  Create or find existing courses in the Garmin Connect™ smartphone app, or sync from third-party platforms and get turn-by-turn directions.
• Dynamic Round-Trip Routing
  Enter how far you want to go, and get suggested routes that will bring you back. If you break off course, your watch will map a new one that hits the same mileage.
• Training Status
  Using indicators such as HRV status, your recent exercise history and VO2 max, get an easy insight into training effectiveness — and know whether you’re training productively, peaking or strained.
• Daily Suggested Workouts
  Get workouts made for you. They adapt after every run to match your performance and recovery.
• Recovery Time
  Know how long you need to recover before your next high-effort workout based on your latest training.
• Body Battery™ Energy Monitoring
  Track your body’s energy levels to find the best times for activity and rest¹.
• Sleep Coach
  Get a sleep score and personalized coaching for how much sleep you need. Track sleep stages, and get insights to improve sleep quality¹.
• Nap Detection
  Automatically track or log your naps to see how they benefit your body and to check the recommended time and duration they should be.
• HRV Status
  Gain a deeper understanding of your overall health, stress and recovery through heart rate variability while you sleep.
• Garmin ECG App
  The ECG app² uses sensors to record the electrical signals that control how your heart beats. It analyzes that recording to detect signs of an irregular heart rhythm called atrial fibrillation.
• Skin Temperature
  When wearing your watch to sleep, see how your average skin temperature1 changes, which can be related to your recent activity, sleep environment, potential illness and more.
• Women's Health Tracking
  Track your menstrual cycle or pregnancy, plus get exercise and nutrition education. With skin temperature tracking while you sleep, get better period predictions and past ovulation estimates3.
• Race Predictor
  Get an estimate of what your pace could be for a 5K, 10K, half-marathon and marathon if you were to run it today.
• Projected Race Time
  This race-time prediction is what your race time and pace could be if you keep training well all the way through to the race date entered.

Prepare

• Wrist-Based Running Dynamics
  This smartwatch measures crucial running metrics such as cadence, stride length, ground contact time and more.
• Step Speed Loss
  Improve your running form and understand how much you slow down when your foot hits the ground when you pair your watch with the HRM 600 monitor (sold separately).
• Wrist-Based Heart Rate
  The watch constantly samples your heart rate to help you gauge how hard you work during activities¹.
• MultiSport Workouts
  Create custom step-by-step multisport workouts in Garmin Connect and send them to your watch to seamlessly switch from different sport types.
• Hill Score
  Measure your capability for running uphill, and evaluate your progress over time based on your VO2 max and training history.
• Endurance Score
  This feature measures your ability to sustain prolonged efforts to help you understand how training from your athletic pursuits impacts your overall endurance.
• Acute Load
  Compare your recent training load to the optimal range to help improve your fitness.
• Load Ratio
  Track short-term to mid-term load ratio to keep your rate of training growth within bounds that will help you stay healthy and avoid setbacks.
• Performance Condition
  While you run, get an analysis of your pace and heart rate for a real-time assessment of your current ability to perform.
• VO2 MAX
  See your current fitness level, and track changes over time to set goals, evaluate progress and more.
• Stress Tracking
  Find out if you’re having a calm, balanced or stressful day.
• Training Effect
  See how your workouts influence your endurance, speed and power.
• Health Snapshot
  Log a 2-minute session to record key health stats, then generate a report to share with your health care provider.
• Pulse OX Sensor
  Track your blood oxygen saturation while you’re awake or asleep⁴.
• Cross Training
  Download free HIIT, strength, cardio, yoga, Pilates and mobility workouts so you can switch up how you sweat.

Perform

• Triathlon and Multisport Profiles
  Automatically record splits with built-in profiles for triathlons, duathlons, brick workouts and swimruns, or you can create your own.
• 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.
• SatiQ Technology Multi-Band GPS
  Get superior positioning accuracy and optimized battery life.
• PacePro™ Pacing Strategies
  Plan race-day strategy with GPS-based pace guidance for a selected course or distance.
• Track Running
  Your watch will record accurate lap distances in meters on tracks all over the world.
• ClimbPro
  See real-time information on your current and upcoming climbs.
• Real-Time Stamina
  Use this data to help guide you toward your best possible performance and manage your exertion.
• Up Ahead
  Get at-a-glance awareness of relevant stops along a preloaded course, including aid stations.
• Auto Lap® by Timing Gates
  Your watch will recognize when you cross mile or kilometer course points and trigger auto laps there versus GPS-based miles or kilometers when following a course.
• Suggested Finish Line
  If you have a course loaded for your race, your watch can suggest trimming your data to the finish line if you forget to stop your timer.
• Built-In Sports Apps
  Tap in to 30+ built-in activities, including cycling, open-water swimming, strength training and more.

Connect

• Music
  Download songs and playlists from your Spotify, Deezer or Amazon Music accounts for phone-free listening.
• Safety and Tracking
  If you feel unsafe or if your watch senses that an incident occurred, your watch will send a message with your live location⁵.
• Garmin Pay™ Contactless Payments
  Breeze through checkout lines or transit systems with participating providers.
• Smart Notifications
  Receive emails, texts and alerts on your watch when paired with your iPhone® or Android™ smartphone.
• LiveTrack
  Friends and family can follow your real-time location⁵ and view preplanned courses.
• 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.
• Garmin Share
  Sync up with friends by sharing saved locations, courses and workouts with other nearby compatible devices.

Footnotes:

• ¹ Activity tracking accuracy
• ² The ECG app is only available on select Garmin smartwatches with the latest version of the Garmin Connect smartphone app and watch software. The ECG app is not available in all regions; see Garmin.com/ECG for availability. The ECG app is only intended for adults aged 22 years and over. The ECG app is capable of recording an ECG similar to a Lead I ECG and detecting the presence of atrial fibrillation or normal sinus rhythm.
• ³ The menstrual cycle tracking feature should not be used in support of conception, contraception or birth control. This is not a medical device and is not intended for use in the diagnosis or monitoring of any medical condition.
• 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 not available in all countries.
• ⁵ When paired with your compatible smartphone. For safety and tracking feature requirements and limitations, see Garmin.com/safety.