Show everyone you're a runner with the Forerunner 170 Music
For runners who want to get more out of their workouts, there’s the Forerunner 170, the GPS running watch with a bright AMOLED touchscreen. Get metrics like speed, distance, and heart rate, as well as advanced training and recovery data. The watch also offers beginner-friendly, personalized Garmin Coach training plans to help you reach every starting line.
Forerunner 170 Music with a 20 mm quick-release silicone wristband for wrist circumferences of 126–203 mm.
Highlights of the Garmin Forerunner 170 Music
- 1.2-inch AMOLED touchscreen
- Up to 10 days of battery life in smartwatch mode
- Physiological metrics and recovery insights
- Beginner-friendly, personalized Garmin Coach training plans
- More than 80 built-in sports apps
- Music on your wrist
- Smart notifications and contactless payments with Garmin Pay™²
Details on Garmin Forerunner 170 Music
- Speed, distance, heart rate: These user-friendly GPS running watches provide key metrics like speed, distance, and heart rate at a glance—ideal for beginners looking to start their running training.
- Daily training recommendations: Get daily training recommendations that adapt based on your training load and recovery. New running-walking sessions designed specifically for beginners introduce aspiring runners to running.
- Adaptive Garmin Coach Training Plans: Improve your fitness or train for a milestone—with adaptive or pre-made Garmin Coach running, strength, or fitness training plans. Now featuring special running training plans for beginners. To make your training even more personalized, select plans even adapt based on your performance and health data.
- HRV Status: Get a clearer picture of your overall health, training, and recovery with heart rate variability. To do this, the running watch monitors the time differences between consecutive heartbeats while you sleep.
- Advanced Training Features: Training Readiness combines your current training load with other health data such as recovery, sleep, or stress to individually assess your readiness for your next workout. Training Status shows you how you’ve progressed and whether your training was productive. Training Effect analyzes how your training sessions impact endurance, speed, and performance.
- On-the-go features: Download songs and playlists from your Spotify, Amazon Music, or Deezer account (subscription may be required). Use wireless headphones (sold separately) to listen to music without your smartphone. You can also easily make contactless payments right from your wrist with Garmin Pay™.
- Long battery life: With a battery life of up to 10 days in smartwatch mode and up to 20 hours in GPS mode, you 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 right after you wake up and provides your daily training recommendation as well as weather information. You can even customize the report to your preferences.
- Evening Report: The Evening Report shows you a summary of your day before you go to bed and provides recommendations on sleep duration, as well as your planned workout and the weather for the next day. You can even customize the report to your preferences.
- Recovery Time: After each workout, the recovery time tells you when you’ll be ready for your next activity. It takes into account workout intensity and factors like stress, daily activities, and sleep.
- Sleep Coach: Get a Sleep Score to assess your sleep quality and personalized guidance on how much sleep you need and how you can improve. Track your different sleep stages (light, deep, REM), heart rate, stress, pulse oximetry, and respiratory rate throughout the night.
- Nap Detection: Automatically track or save your naps and discover how they benefit your body, when the ideal time for them is, and the length of them.
- Body Battery™ Energy reserves: Track your body’s energy reserves throughout the day to find out when the best times for activity and recovery are.
- Navigation features: In the Garmin Connect™ app and on third-party platforms, you can create routes or find existing ones and then sync them directly to your smartwatch.
- Route Planner: Prepare for what lies ahead with the Route Planner. This feature lets you add time limits, notes, recovery plans, checkpoints, and aid stations to stay informed during the competition.
- Race time prediction: Get an estimate of your potential pace for a 5K, 10K, half marathon, or marathon.
- Changes in Your Breathing Patterns: Insights into changes in your breathing patterns while sleeping give you a better understanding of your health. These changes may be due to your environment, alcohol, or potential sleep disorders such as sleep apnea.
- Women’s Health: Track and save information about your menstrual cycle or pregnancy, and get tips on training and nutrition.
- Wrist-based heart rate monitoring: The smartwatch regularly measures your heart rate—day and night—and helps you assess how hard you’re training during activities.
- Running Dynamics On the wrist: Your smartwatch measures key running efficiency metrics such as cadence, stride length, ground contact time, and more to help you improve your fitness.
- VO2Max: View your current fitness level and track long-term changes to set goals, evaluate your progress, and more.
- Intensity Minutes: Track the minutes you’ve spent on moderate and intense activities to help you reach your goals.
- Acute Load: Compare your recent training load to the optimal range to improve your fitness.
- Pulse Ox sensor: Track your blood oxygen levels to monitor acclimatization at high altitudes or detect potential breathing difficulties during sleep.
- Quickstart Training: With the Quickstart Training feature, your smartwatch creates a workout tailored to you. The workout is based on the time you specify—30, 45, or 60 minutes—as well as your desired intensity, selectable in 4 levels from easy to very hard.
- Voice prompts: Receive performance feedback (when paired with your smartphone).
- Keep an eye on your stress levels: See what kind of day you’re having: a calm day, a balanced day, or a stressful day.
- Health Snapshot™: Complete a 2-minute session to record key health metrics, then generate a report to share with your doctor.
- Lifestyle Logging: Track behaviors, such as caffeine and alcohol consumption, and receive reports in the Garmin Connect app on how they affect your health.
- Health Status: Get an overview of whether your health metrics—such as HRV, heart rate, skin temperature, and Pulse Ox during sleep—are within your usual range or deviating from it. The latter may indicate additional stress, which can be related to changes caused by physical activity, your environment, alcohol consumption, illness, and more.
- Workouts: In Garmin Connect, you’ll find free HIIT, strength, cardio, yoga, and Pilates workouts. You can even create your own workouts in the app and transfer them to your smartwatch.
- Fitness: Keep track of your daily steps, calories burned, and much more on your smartwatch.
- Fitness Age: Calculate how fit you are compared to your actual age.
- Mobility: Improve your flexibility and strength with free, downloadable mobility workouts.
- Multi-GNSS: The built-in GNSS supports multiple satellite systems, allowing you to track your runs and get key stats like distance and speed.
- Running Power on your wrist: See how much power you’re putting into your run on the trail or road. This helps you manage your effort and train even more effectively.
- Built-in sports apps: Access more than 80 built-in activities, including cycling, pool swimming, strength training, and much more.
- PacePro™: Plan your race-day strategy with pace guidance for a selected route or distance.
- Track training: Record precise lap distances and view distances in meters.
- Safety and tracking: If you don’t feel safe during an activity or your smartwatch detects an accident, Live Track sends a message with your live location to emergency contacts.
- Share your location via LiveTrack™: Friends and family can follow your real-time location and view previously planned routes.
- Smart Notifications: Receive emails, notifications, and more directly on your smartwatch when paired with your compatible iPhone® or Android™ smartphone.
- Reply right from your wrist: Use the keyboard to quickly reply to text messages on your paired smartwatch (Android only or via the Garmin Messenger™ app)— so your smartphone can stay in your bag.
- Garmin Connect™ App: The Garmin Connect™ app shows you all the information about your health, fitness, and activities. Update your smartwatch, get insights, join the community, and more.
- Connect IQ™ Store: Download watch faces, data fields, and apps to your paired smartwatch.
- Google Maps™ App: Enter your destination in Google Maps on your Android smartphone and follow turn-by-turn directions directly on your smartwatch.
- Garmin Share: Quickly and easily share your planned routes, workouts, and locations with other compatible Garmin products.
- Color filters and display customization: Color display options, including grayscale, red/green, green/red, or blue/yellow, help with various types of color blindness. You have access to different display designs with customizable data and colors.
- Garmin Pay™: Enjoy the freedom of going cashless on the go. Simply make contactless payments with your smartwatch at participating merchants.
Scope of delivery
- Forerunner 170 Music
- Charging cable
- Documentation