Garmin Forerunner 170 Music Black/amp Yellow

The Forerunner 170 Music, part of the popular Forerunner series, released in spring 2026, guides and supports your training. Gaining fitness requires the right rhythm of exercise and rest, and the Forerunner’s advanced features guide you to do the workout that best develops your fitness every day - and guides you to just rest when it’s the best thing to do.

This Music version boasts a practical music function, enabling you to use the watches user interface for controlling your listening experience.

The Forerunner 170 GPS running smartwatch has everything you need for increasing your running fitness and is also suitable for beginner runners, even those who still walk a big proportion of the time. In addition, it boasts the Garmin Cycling coach Daily training recommendations are based on your body condition and previous workouts, e.g. by monitoring heart rate variability, and if a good workout is followed by a bad night’s sleep, the next day’s program is automatically adjusted.

The Forerunner 170 also works in other activities and sports, with 80 sport profiles included, including cycling, swimming and strength training.

When exercising outdoors, the Forerunner 170 tracks your speed and records your route using GPS, and the watch captures heart rate data directly from your wrist. It is also compatible with a separate heart rate belt.

Physical characteristics:

• Touchscreen, bright and easy-to-read AMOLED, size 1.2”, 390 x 390 pixels
• Case dimensions 42.6 x 42.6 x 11.9 mm, suitable for wrists with a circumference of 126 - 203 mm
• Standard 20 mm straps, easy to replace
• Weight 41 g
• Battery life is up to 10 days in smartwatch mode, up to 20 hours in GPS mode
• 512MB memory

Training and tracking features:

• Barometric altitude data
• Garmin Pay function
• Garmin Cycling coach function
• Running dynamics data directly from the wrist, without the need for a separate sensor: cadence, stride length, ground contact time
• Garmin Coach adapts the training program to your body condition and, for example, sleep quality
• Body Battery: Body energy level assessment
• Morning report includes sleep data, recovery status assessment, heart rate variability and the day’s calendar events
• Evening report includes information about sleep needs, next day’s workouts, weather, and calendar events
• Recovery time estimate shows when it’s the right time for the next developmental workout
• Sleep coach function helps improve sleep quality
• Create or search for routes in the Garmin Connect app and third-party services and sync them directly to your watch
• Route planning helps you prepare for what’s ahead. This feature lets you add time limits, notes, rest plans, checkpoints, and service points to help you stay on track throughout the race
• Race prediction: after training for a while, the watch estimates your potential pace for 5,000 and 10,000 meters, half marathon and marathon
• Breathing variability monitoring during sleep
• Menstrual cycle and pregnancy tracking feature and related exercise and nutrition recommendations
• Estimate of maximal oxygen uptake capacity
• Active minutes tracking: moderate and high intensity active minutes
• Instant load estimate: compare your recent training load to the optimal range
• Pulse oximeter monitors blood oxygen levels both while awake and asleep (The device is not designed for medical purposes. If you have any questions about your oxygen saturation reading, please contact your healthcare provider.)
• Quick workout feature: create a running workout directly on the watch based on your desired time and intensity
• Stress level assessment
• “Health Snapshot” feature tracks your body’s key values ​​for 2 minutes
• Lifestyle logs: you can log things like caffeine and alcohol consumption and see how they affect your health in reports in the Garmin Connect app
• Health Assessment monitors changes in your health data that may indicate increased stress on your body, so you know when they deviate from your normal range
• Cross-training features: Free HIIT, strength, cardio, yoga and Pilates workouts are available on Garmin Connect. You can also create your own workouts in the app and send them to your watch
• Activity tracking outside of training time includes, among other things, step count measurement and calorie consumption estimation
• Fitness age estimate compares your fitness level to your actual age
• Free mobility exercises
• GNSS system supports multiple satellite systems, allowing you to track your location and record key stats like distance and pace
• Running power estimate: see how much power you’re putting into your trail or road runs so you can manage your effort and fine-tune your training
• Pacepro function provides a recommendation for the pace distribution for a race performance
• Lap time function
• Safety function: if the watch detects, for example, a fall, it will send your real-time location via text message to a number of your choice when the watch is connected to a phone with the Garmin app.
• Livetrack location sharing: selected loved ones can follow your real-time location³ and view pre-planned routes
• Phone notifications: you can choose to receive text message and call notifications directly on your wrist
• Use the keyboard to quickly send text replies directly from your watch (Android only or with the Garmin Messenger™ smartphone app⁴) so you don’t have to take your phone out of your pocket
• Garmin Connect app and Connect IQ store, as well as Google Maps app features enable versatile data processing and watch customization
• Garmin Share: Share locations, routes and workouts with other Garmin devices
• Color filters: display settings that make it easier for colorblind people to use the watch, e.g. grayscale, use of red/green, green/red or blue/yellow color profiles