Let ’em know you’re a runner
Forerunner 170 Music 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
- Music on your wrist
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 rate1.
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 variability1. 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
Download your Spotify, Amazon Music or Deezer playlists directly to your watch to listen phone-free, subscription may be required. Plus, you can pay from your wrist with Garmin Pay™ contactless payments2.
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 quality1.
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 rest1.
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 sleep3. 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 activities1.
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 asleep3.
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 and even be guided through workouts, when paired with your wireless headphones or 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 wrist1.
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 location4. Or if you feel unsafe, you can do it manually.
LiveTrack™ location sharing
Friends and family can follow your real-time location4 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™ app5, 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.
Notes
1 Activity tracking accuracy.
2 View current supported country, payment network and issuing bank information.
3 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.
4 When paired with your compatible smartphone. For safety and tracking feature requirements and limitations, see Garmin.com/safety.
5 Requires both the sender and receiver of messages to have the Garmin Messenger app installed on their paired smartphones.
SPOTIFY and the Spotify logo are among the registered trademarks of Spotify AB. Amazon Music and all related logos are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. iPhone is a trademark of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. Android is a trademark of Google LLC.
Engineering enhancements are ongoing and may not be reflected in the pictures, videos and specifications.
General
| Case (W × L × H) | 42.6 × 42.6 × 11.9 mm |
| Weight | 41 g |
| Wrist circumference | 126 – 203 mm |
| Display | AMOLED, 1.2" (30.4 mm), 390 × 390 px |
| Colour display | Yes |
| Touchscreen | Yes |
| Always-on display | Yes (optional) |
| Large font option | Yes |
| Display glass | Chemically strengthened glass |
| Case material | Fibre-reinforced polymer |
| Strap | Silicone, quick-release, 20 mm |
| Water resistance | 5 ATM (swimming) |
| Memory | 4 GB |
| Charging | Garmin cable |
Battery life
| Smartwatch mode | Up to 10 days |
| Always-on display | Up to 4 days |
| Battery saver | Up to 19 days |
| GNSS – GPS only | Up to 20 hours |
| GNSS – all systems | Up to 14 hours |
Sensors
| Satellite systems | GPS, GLONASS, Galileo |
| Pulse oximeter (SpO₂) | Yes (spot check / all-day / sleep) |
| Garmin Elevate™ (wrist heart rate) | Yes |
| Barometric altimeter | Yes |
| Electronic compass | Yes |
| Gyroscope | Yes |
| Accelerometer | Yes |
| Thermometer | Yes |
| Ambient light sensor | Yes |
Health and wellness
| Wrist heart rate (continuous) | Yes |
| Resting heart rate | Yes |
| Abnormal heart rate alerts | Yes (high and low) |
| Respiration rate | Yes |
| Fitness age | Yes |
| Body Battery™ | Yes |
| All-day stress | Yes |
| Relaxation reminders | Yes |
| Relaxation breathing timer | Yes |
| Sleep (advanced) | Yes |
| Sleep score | Yes |
| Sleep coach | Yes |
| Nap detection | Yes |
| Respiration variations | Yes |
| Health status | Yes |
| Health summary | Yes |
| Lifestyle logging | Yes |
| Women's health | Yes (Garmin Connect™ / Connect IQ™) |
| Hydration | Yes (Garmin Connect™ / Connect IQ™) |
Training, planning and analysis
| Training readiness | Yes |
| Training status | Yes |
| Heart rate variability status (HRV) | Yes |
| Suggested workout of the day | Yes |
| Garmin running coach | Yes |
| Garmin expert running coaches | Yes |
| Garmin Cycling Coach | Yes |
| Garmin trainer – strength | Yes |
| Garmin fitness coach | Yes |
| Downloadable training plans | Yes |
| Course guidance | Yes |
| Heart rate zones | Yes |
| Heart rate alerts | Yes |
| HR-based calorie burn | Yes |
| Percent of max HR | Yes |
| Percent of HR reserve | Yes |
| During recovery | Yes |
| Auto max heart rate | Yes |
| Quick race glance | Yes |
| HR Broadcast (ANT+™) | Yes |
| On-screen muscle map | Yes |
| Auto rep counting | Yes |
| Customisable displays | Yes |
| Breath count (during exercise) | Yes (with compatible accessories) |
Activity profiles
| Gym | Strength, HIIT, Cardio, Elliptical, Stair Stepper, Jump Rope |
| Wellness | Walking, Pilates, Yoga, Indoor Walking, Mobility, Breathwork |
| Indoor running | Treadmill, Indoor Track, Virtual Running |
| Outdoor running | Running, Track, Trail Running, Ultra Running, Obstacle Racing |
| Outdoor recreation | Hiking, Rucking, Horseback Riding, Disc Golf, Archery |
| Cycling | Road, Mountain, Gravel, Commute, Long Distance, eBike, Mountain eBike, Indoor, Cyclocross |
| Swimming | Pool, Open Water |
| On the water | SUP, Rowing, Kayaking, Snorkelling |
| Motorsports | BMX, Overlanding, Motocross, ATV, Snowmobile |
| Racket sports | Tennis, Pickleball, Badminton, Squash, Table Tennis, Padel, Platform Tennis, Racquetball |
| Snow and winter | Skiing, Snowboarding, XC Classic, XC Skate, Ice Skating, Snowshoeing |
| Team sports | Basketball, Volleyball, Field Hockey, Ice Hockey, Football, American Football, Lacrosse, Rugby, Ultimate, Cricket, Softball, Baseball |
| Combat sports | Boxing, MMA |
| Other | Inline Skating |
Smart features
| Connectivity | Bluetooth®, ANT+® |
| Garmin Pay™ | Yes |
| Music controls | Yes |
| Smart notifications | Yes |
| Reply / reject call with text | Android™ only |
| Notification images on watch | Android™ only |
| Morning report | Yes |
| Evening report | Yes |
| Calendar | Yes |
| Weather forecast | Yes |
| Find my phone | Yes |
| Find my Garmin | Yes |
| Find my phone during GPS activity | Yes |
| On-device Connect IQ™ Store | Yes |
| Garmin Messenger | Yes |
| Garmin Share | Yes |
| Smart trainer control | Yes |
| Settings sync with Garmin Connect™ | Yes |
| Battery saver | Yes |
| Compatibility | iPhone®, Android™ |
| Stocks | Yes |
| Colour change | Yes |
| Red shift mode | Yes |
| Colour filters | Yes |
| Password | Yes |
| Calculator | Yes |
| Hourly alert | Yes |
Activity tracking
| Step counter | Yes |
| Move alerts | Yes |
| Move options with alerts | Yes |
| Auto daily goal | Yes |
| Calories burned | Yes |
| Floors climbed | Yes |
| Distance covered | Yes |
| Intensity minutes | Yes |
| TrueUp™ | Yes |
| Move IQ™ | Yes |
| Garmin Connect™ Challenges | Yes (optional Connect IQ app) |
| Auto rep counting | Yes |
Safety and tracking
| Incident detection | Yes |
| Smartphone alert | Yes |
| Assistance | Yes |
| Live event sharing | Android™ only |
Watch features
| GPS time sync | Yes |
| Auto daylight saving time | Yes |
| Alarm | Yes |
| Smart wake alarm | Yes |
| Timer | Yes |
| Stopwatch | Yes |
| Sunrise/sunset time | Yes |
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