Garmin Forerunner® 170 Music Multisport Watch, AMOLED

The GARMIN Forerunner® 170 Music supports both beginners and more ambitious runners with structured training plans, smart training analyses and personalised workouts. 

Thanks to the integrated music storage and support for popular music streaming services, you can continue your training with motivation even without a smartphone. Smart functions such as notifications, GARMIN Pay and accident notifications make the GPS running watch a versatile companion for everyday life and sport.


YOU WILL LOVE THIS

• PACE, DISTANCE, HEART RATE: This easy-to-use smartwatch provides all essential features, including GPS, pace, distance and wrist-based heart rate measurement. 
• DAILY SUGGESTED WORKOUTS: Receive daily training recommendations, which adapt depending on your training load and recovery. Including running/walking units specially designed for beginners, which introduce beginners to running.
• GARMIN COACH ADAPTIVE TRAINING PLANS: Prepare for your next competition, train for a milestone or simply improve your fitness with adaptive or pre-built GARMIN Coach running, cycling, strength or triathlon training plans. For even more personalised workouts, selected plans adapt based on performance and health data.
• HRV STATUS: Record your heart rate variability during sleep and get exciting insights into health, recovery and fitness thanks to a daily and 7-day average.
• ADVANCED WORKOUTS Training readiness combines your acute training load with other health data such as recovery, sleep or stress and individually classifies your readiness for the next training session. The training status shows you how you have developed and whether your training was productive. The training effect analyses how your training sessions effect your stamina, speed, and performance.
• MUSIC AT THE WRIST: Download songs and playlists from your Spotify®, Deezer or Amazon Music account (subscription may be required). 
• GARMIN PAY: Pay with just the flick of a wrist – no wallet required. For information on participating banks, visit garmin.com/garminpay/banks.


EVERYTHING YOU NEED FOR YOUR FIRST GOALS

Planning:
• 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: The morning report shows you a summary of your sleep and HRV status directly after waking up and provides you with your daily training recommendation and weather information*. You can even customise the report to fit your needs.
• EVENING REPORT: The evening report shows you a summary of your day before you go to bed with a reminder of sleep need, tomorrow’s workout and weather. You can even customise the report to fit your needs.
• RECOVERY TIME: After each workout, the recovery time tells you when you are ready for your next activity. It is based on the training intensity and factors such as stress, daily activities and sleep. 
• SLEEP COACH: Get a sleep score and personalised coaching for how much sleep you need and how you can improve. Keep track of different sleep stages and naps – and see key metrics such as HRV status to better understand your health.
• NAP DETECTION: Automatically track or log your naps. See how they benefit your body and check the recommended time and duration they should be.
• BODY BATTERY™*: Measure your body’s energy levels so that you know the best times for you to be active or to recover.
• NAVIGATION FEATURES: In the GARMIN Connect™ app and on third-party platforms, you can create routes or find existing routes and then synchronise them directly with your smartwatch.
• ROUTE PLANNER: Use the route planner to prepare yourself for what lies ahead. With this function, you can add time limits, notes, recovery plans, checkpoints and refreshment stations to stay informed during the race. 
• RACE PREDICTOR: Get a calculation of your potential pace for a 5K, 10K, half marathon or marathon.
• BREATHING VARIATIONS: This function uses Pulse Ox to detect changes in breathing patterns during sleep**.
• WOMEN'S HEALTH: Track and store information about your menstrual cycle or pregnancy for training and nutrition information.


Preparation:
• WRIST-BASED HEART RATE MEASUREMENT: Constant measurement of your heart rate helps you gauge how hard you work during activities.
• WRIST-BASED RUNNING DYNAMICS: Your smartwatch measures crucial running metrics such as cadence, stride length, ground contact time and more. 
• VO2 MAX: See your current fitness level and track long-term changes to set goals, evaluate your progress and more.
• INTENSITY MINUTES: Save your moderate and intense activity minutes.
• ACUTE LOAD: Compare your recent training load with the optimal range to improve your fitness.
• PULSE OX SENSOR**: Check your blood oxygen level to assess acclimatisation to altitude or to detect breathing difficulties during sleep.
• QUICKSTART TRAINING: With the Quickstart Training function, your smartwatch creates a suitable training programme for you. The training is based on your time – 30, 45 or 60 minutes – and your desired intensity – selectable in 4 levels from easy to very hard.
• VOICE INSTRUCTIONS: Receive tips on your performance and even instructions during your workouts (when paired with wireless headphones or smartphone). 
• STRESS TRACKING: Find out what kind of day you are having: a calm day, a balanced day or a busy day.
• HEALTH SNAPSHOT™: Complete a 2-minute session to record important health statistics, then create a report to share with your doctor.
• LIFESTYLE LOGGING: With self-created and predefined behaviours, such as caffeine and alcohol consumption, relaxation exercises, sleep aids and more, you can easily record your daily habits. Get an overview of how these affect your sleep, stress and HRV* in the GARMIN Connect app. Your smartwatch will help you to make more conscious decisions.
• HEALTH STATUS: Get an overview of whether your health data – such as HRV, heart rate, skin temperature* and pulse ox** during sleep – are within your usual range or deviate from it. The latter may indicate additional stress, which can be related to changes in physical activity, your environment, alcohol consumption, illness and more. 
• WORKOUTS: Download free HIIT, strength training, cardio, yoga, Pilates and mobility workouts and add variety to your training.
• ACTIVITY TRACKING: Keep tabs on your daily steps, calories burned, floors climbed and more from your wrist.
• FITNESS AGE: This feature uses the chronological age, your weekly activity, your resting heart rate and your BMI or body fat percentage to calculate whether your body is younger or older than your actual age.
• MOBILITY: Improve your flexibility and strength with free, downloadable mobility training sessions.


Performance:
• MULTI-GNSS: The built-in sensors connect to multiple satellite systems so you track where you run, and get accurate stats, including distance and pace.
• WRIST-BASED RUNNING POWER: Look at how much power you're putting on the trail or the road. This way you can regulate your effort and train even more optimally.
• BUILT-IN SPORTS APPS: Take advantage of more than 80 built-in activities, including cycling, open water swimming, strength training and more. 
• PACEPRO: Plan your race day strategy with GPS-based pace information for a specific course or distance.
• TRACK RUNNING: Record accurate lap distances and see your distances in metres.


Always informed:
• SAFETY AND TRACKING***: If you don't feel safe or your smartwatch has detected an accident, a message with your live position is sent to emergency contacts.
• LIVETRACK***: Friends and family can follow your position in real time and view data such as speed and planned routes.
• SMART NOTIFICATIONS: Get emails, messages and more on your Forerunner when paired with an iPhone or Android smartphone.
• ON-WRIST TEXTING: You can use the keyboard to quickly reply to text messages on the paired smartwatch (Android only or via the GARMIN Messenger™ app) – so your smartphone can stay in your pocket.
• GARMIN CONNECT APP: The GARMIN Connect app shows you all the information about your health, fitness and activities. Update your smartwatch, get insights, become part of the community and more.
• CONNECT IQ™ STORE: Upload display designs, data fields and apps to your paired smartwatch.
• GOOGLE MAPS™ APP: Know where to go when walking, running or cycling. Enter the destination in Google Maps on your Android™ smartphone and follow turn-by-turn directions directly on your wrist.
• GARMIN SHARE: Share your planned routes, workouts and positions quickly and easily with other compatible GARMIN devices.
• COLOUR FILTER AND CUSTOMISATION OF THE DISPLAY DESIGN: Colour display options, including greyscale, red/green, green/red or blue/yellow, help with different types of colour blindness. You can choose from different display designs with customisable data and colours. With paired headphones, you can even hear an announcement of the data fields shown on the display design.


Note:
* Fitness tracker accuracy information at garmin.com/atdisclaimer.
** Not a medical device for diagnosis or treatment. For more information, visit garmin.com/ataccuracy.
*** Requirements and restrictions for safety and tracking features are available at Garmin.com/safety.


Watch features:
• Time/date
• GPS time sync
• Automatic daylight saving time
• Alarm clock
• Timer
• Stop watch
• Sunrise/sunset times

Health and fitness features:
• Wrist-based heart rate (constant - every second)
• Daily heart rate at rest
• Abnormal heart rate alerts (high and low)
• Respiration rate (24x7)
• PULSE OX blood oxygen saturation (spot-check and optional all-day acclimatisation and during sleep)
• Fitness age
• Body Battery energy monitor
• Stress level measurement
• Relaxation reminders
• Relaxation timer
• Meditation
• Breathing exercises
• Sleep analysis (advanced)
• Sleep coach
• Breathing variations:
• Nap detection
• Hydration (in GARMIN Connect and optionally in the Connect IQ widget)
• Women’s health tracking (in GARMIN Connect and optionally in the Connect IQ widget)
• Health snapshot
• Lifestyle Logging
• Health Status

Sensors:
• GPS
• GLONASS
• Galileo
• Heart rate measurement on the wrist (GARMIN Elevate technology)
• Pulse Ox
• Barometric altimeter
• Compass
• Gyroscope
• Accelerometer
• Thermometer
• Ambient light sensor

Daily smart functions (partially requires smartphone connection):
• Smart Notifications
• Text response / reject phone call with text (Android only)
• Smart notifications with image display on the smartwatch (Android only)
• Morning report
• Evening report
• Calendar
• Weather
• Real-time setting synchronisation with GARMIN Connect Mobile
• Energy saving mode: Customisable energy-saving clock mode
• Music features (smartphone control)
• Music playback (internal music memory)
• Find my Phone feature
• Find my Phone (during GPS activity)
• Compatible with GARMIN Messenger app
• Smart trainer operation
• Smartphone compatibility: iPhone®, Android™
• Compatible with GARMIN Connect Mobile
• Share tracker
• GARMIN Pay (more information as well as participating banks at www.garmin.com/en-GB/garminpay/banks/ )
• Colour change
• Colour filter
• Red Shift mode
• GARMIN Share
• Password
• Calculator
• Display design announcement
• Hourly alarm

Workouts and training plans:
• Daily suggested workout Running
• GARMIN Running Coach
• GARMIN Running Coach Expert
• GARMIN Cycling Coach
• GARMIN Coach – predefined cycling plans
• GARMIN Coach – strength training 
• GARMIN Fitness Coach
• Cardio workouts
• Strength workouts
• HIIT workouts
• Yoga workouts
• Pilates workouts
• Graphic presentation of the trained muscle groups

Activity profiles:
• Gym: strength, HIIT, cardio and cross training, (stair) stepping, jump roping
• Health: walking, pilates, yoga, indoor walking, mobility, breathing exercises
• Indoor running: treadmill, indoor track running, virtual running
• Outdoor running: running, track running, trail running, ultra running, obstacle course
• Outdoor recreation profiles: hiking, rucking, mountaineering, horseback riding, disc golf, archery 
• Cycling profiles: cycling, road cycling, mountain biking, gravel biking, bike commuting, bike touring, e-biking, e-mountain biking, indoor cycling, cyclocross
• Swimming profiles: indoor pool swimming, open water swimming
• On the water: stand-up paddleboarding, rowing, kayaking, snorkelling
• Motor sports: motorcycling, overlanding, motocrossing, ATVing, snowmobiling
• Racket sports: tennis, pickleball, badminton, squash, table tennis, padel, racquetball 
• Snow and winter: Skiing, snowboarding, classic cross-country skiing, freestyle cross-country skiing, ice skating, snowshoeing
• Sports profiles: basketball, volleyball, field hockey, ice hockey, football/soccer, lacrosse, rugby, ultimate disc, cricket, softball, baseball
• In the ring: boxing, mixed martial arts
• Other: inline skating

Safety and tracking features (requires connection with smartphone):
• Incident detection during select activities
• Accident notification on the smartphone with wearables
• Emergency assistance
• Live Event enabling (only Android™)

Activity tracking features:
• Step counter
• Inactivity alarms
• Inactivity alert movement options
• Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal)
• Calories burned
• Floors climbed
• Distance travelled
• Intensity minutes
• TrueUp (switch between compatible devices and synchronise activity data)
• Move IQ (automatic activity detection)
• GARMIN Connect challenges (optional Connect IQ app) 
• Automatic rep counting

Training, planning and analysis features:
• Customisable screens
• Downloadable training plans
• Route guidance
• Heart-rate zones
• Heart-rate alerts
• Heart-rate calories
• % HR Max
• % HRR (percent of your heart rate reserves (maximum heart rate minus resting heart rate))
• Recharge time
• Automatic maximum heart rate
• Competition calendar
• HRV status
• Heart rate transmission (sends heart rate data via ANT+ to connected devices)
• Respiration rate during exercise (with compatible accessories)
• GPS speed and distance
• Customisable activity profiles
• Auto Pause
• Interval training
• Optimised intervals (including open repetitions, interval data page, recovery page and automatic detection)
• HRM running pace and distance
• Auto Lap
• Manual lap
• Recovery timer
• Adjustable lap alarm
• VO2Max (running)
• VO2Max (trail running)
• Load ratio
• Training load
• Training load focus
• Training effects (aerobic and anaerobic)
• Training effect labels (primary use)
• Optimised recovery time
• Adjustable alerts
• Audio announcements
• End time
• Virtual Racer (compete against other activities)
• Shortcuts
• Activity history on the watch
• Physio TrueUp (switch between compatible devices and synchronise training data)
• Uniform training condition

Running features:
• GPS-based distance, time and pace
• Running efficiency
• Vertical movement and vertical ratio (the upward and downward movement of your running motion and the effort-benefit ratio of your stride length).
• Ground contact time and balance (meaning the time between your foot touching the ground and it leaving the ground again and helps you run more symmetrically, possibly requires compatible accessories)
• Step length (real time)
• Running cadence (number of steps per minute)
• Distance travelled
• Grade-adjusted pace
• PacePro pace strategies
• Run workouts
• Quickstart trainings
• Runtime estimate
• Route and weather-specific run forecast
• Running sensor compatible
• Run/Walk/Stand detection

Cycling features:
• Routes (race against previous activities)
• Laps and maximum lap power (with compatible power meter)
• Compete against activities
• Time or distance alerts (when you reach a value you set, you get an alert)
• Compatible with cadence and speed sensors
• Compatible with Vector and Rally (power meter)
• Compatible with ANT+ power meters from third-party providers
• Varia compatible (Varia Vision, Varia radar, Varia bike lights)

Swimming features:
• Open water swim metrics (distance, pace, stroke count, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories burned)
• Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories burned)
• Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly)
• Practice logging
• Basic rest timer (up from 0)
• Recharge timer with “repeat on”
• Auto rest (only for pool swimming)
• Time and distance alerts
• Countdown start
• Swim training
• Underwater wrist-based heart rate measurement
• Heart rate from external heart rate chest strap (real time data during recovery phases, stats for intervals and sessions during recovery phases, automatic download of heart rate data after swimming – requires optional HRM-Pro, HRM-Swim or HRM-Pro Plus heart rate chest strap)

Outdoor features:
• Point to point navigation
• Real-time track logging:
• Back to start (shortest stretch back to the starting point)
• TracBack (along the route so far and the route back to the starting point)
• UltraTrack mode
• POIs along the route
• Altitude graph
• Distance to goal
• Vertical speed
• Total ascent/descent
• Recovery timer
• Upcoming elevation profiles
• Solar and lunar calendar

GARMIN Connect features:
• Synchronisation (transmission of training sessions) via Bluetooth Smart via smartphone or via cable with your PC/Mac
• Save, analyse, plan and share activities in social networks
• Live Tracking feature: show your friends or family your position in real time
• Grouptrack: track current position of your group members during your activity
• Upload training data
• Training plans:
• Map view
• Daily overview
• Diagram overviews
• Online challenges
• Comment the activities of other users   

Note:
Smartphone compatibility of GARMIN Connect app (system requirements): http://www.garmin.com/en-GB/ble   

GARMIN Connect IQ features:
• Create individual display designs, integration of smartphone photos as display background
• Download apps and widgets for additional features
• Connect IQ Shop on the device
• Customise data fields


Technical details:
• Compatible with ANT+ and Bluetooth Smart (BLE) sensors
• Interfaces: ANT+ and Bluetooth Smart, WLAN
• Battery type: lithium-ion battery
• Display size: 1.2" (30.4 mm)
• AMOLED colour display (optional always-on display)
• Resolution: 390 x 390 pixels
• Control: touchscreen and five buttons
• Waterproof rating: 5 ATM (corresponds to a test pressure approx. 50 metres under water)
• Watch glass material: chemically reinforced glass
• Material bezel: fibre-reinforced polymer
• Case material: fibre-reinforced polymer 
• Dimensions: approx. 46.2 x 46.2 x 11.9 mm
• Strap material: silicone (20 mm wide; Quick-Fit system for fast, tool-free replacement, suitable for wrist circumference of 126 - 203 mm)
• Memory/History: 4 GB
• Weight: approx. 41 g 

Battery life:
• Smartwatch mode: up to 10 days (4 days with the display continuously switched on)
• Energy-saving mode: up to 19 days 
• GNSS mode with GPS only: up to 20 hours
• GNSS mode with all systems: up to 14 hours
• GNSS mode with GPS and music only: up to 7.5 hours 
• GNSS mode with all systems and music: up to 6.5 hours


In the box:
• 1 GARMIN Forerunner® 170 Music multisport watch 
• 1 USB charging/data cable (USB power adapter NOT included)
• 1 quick start manual

Optional accessories: 
• GARMIN HRM 200 heart rate chest strap (prod. code: 159661)

Manufacturer: GARMIN International, 1200 E 151st Street Olathe, KS 66 062 , USA , www.garmin.com
Responsible person: Garmin Würzburg GmbH, Leightonstraße 7, 97074 Würzburg, Germany, www.garmin.com/compliance