WHAT IF EVERY RUN WAS A PODIUM-WORTHY PERFORMANCE? AND FROM TRAINING READINESS, YOU KNEW YOU WERE PRIMED TO REAP THE REWARDS? WITH THE FORERUNNER 965 SMARTWATCH, STATS AND INSIGHTS WILL BE LIT UP ON A COLORFUL AMOLED DISPLAY. AND SOON, YOU TOO WILL BE STANDING IN THE LIGHT.
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.
Whether you’re running on city streets or riding densely covered trails, Forerunner 965 provides, full-color, built-in mapping to keep you on track.
Switch between sports automatically by using built-in profiles for triathlons, duathlons, brick workouts and swimruns – so you can focus on the race and let your watch take care of recording splits. You can also create your own custom multisport profiles.
Train for an event, achieve a milestone, or improve your fitness with Garmin Coach training plans for running, cycling or strength. Just set it up in the Garmin Connect™ app, then let Garmin Coach create personalized daily workouts to help you reach your goals. This includes Garmin Run and Cycling Coach, which creates training plans that adapt based on your performance, recovery and health metrics. If you’re trying to build muscle or simply increase your fitness level, the strength training plans are tailored to help you optimize your body’s performance and endurance.
Get workouts made specifically for you and based on your data. These run recommendations vary in intensity and adapt after every run to take into account performance and recovery.
Using indicators such as HRV status, your recent exercise history and performance, get an easy insight into your overall effort — and whether you’re training productively, peaking or strained.
Get a customizable overview of your sleep1, training outlook, HRV status, weather and more as soon as you wake up.
Create or find existing courses in the Garmin Connect app, or sync from your favorite third party platforms and get turn-by-turn directions.
Enter how far you want to go and get suggested routes that will bring you back. Even use TrendLine to find the best local paths.
Know how long you need to recover before your next high-effort workout based on your latest training.
Get a sleep score and personalized 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 health1.
See your energy levels throughout the day so you’ll know when your body is charged up and ready for activity or drained and needing to recharge with restful sleep. And get even more details and personal insights on how sleep, naps, daily activities and high stress specifically impact your energy.
Automatically track or log your naps to see how they benefit your body and to check the recommended time and duration they should be.
For a closer glimpse of your health, the breathing variations feature uses Pulse Ox2 to help you better understand shifts in your breathing patterns as you sleep.
Gain a better understanding of your overall health, recovery and training performance while you sleep.
Track and log your menstrual cycle or pregnancy to get exercise and nutrition education.
Get an estimate of what your pace could be for a 5K, 10K, half-marathon and marathon.
This smartwatch measures crucial running metrics such as cadence, stride length, ground contact time and more.
The watch constantly samples your heart rate to help you gauge how hard you work during activities1.
This feature measures your ability to sustain prolonged efforts and combines training data from all of your athletic pursuits to help you understand how training impacts your overall endurance. This dynamic measurement uses your VO2 max, short-term/long-term training loads and other factors to gauge your fitness progress beyond just VO2 max.
This feature measures your capability for running uphill and evaluates your progress over time based on your VO2 max and training history. It measures your running strength on steep ascents and running endurance on long ascents and provides a score based on your performance over time.
Compare your recent training load to the optimal range to help improve your fitness.
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.
While you run, get an analysis of your pace and heart rate for a real-time assessment of your current ability to perform.
See your current fitness level and track changes over time to set goals, evaluate progress and more.
Find out if you’re having a calm, balanced or stressful day.
See how your workouts influence your endurance, speed and power.
Log a 2-minute session to record key health stats, then generate a report to share with your healthcare provider.
Track your blood oxygen saturation while you’re awake or asleep, and gain awareness of how you’re adapting to altitude.
Forerunner 965 is preloaded with free HIIT, strength, cardio, yoga and Pilates workouts so you can switch up how you sweat.
See how much power you’re applying to the trail or road so you can manage effort and fine-tune training.
Get superior positioning accuracy and optimized battery life.
Plan race day strategy with GPS-based pace guidance for a selected course or distance.
Record accurate lap distances and see your distances in meters.
See real-time information on your current and upcoming climbs.
Prevent burning out and use this data to track and manage your exertion.
Get at-a-glance awareness for points of interest along the course, such as aid stations.
Tap in to 30+ built-in activities, including cycling, open-water swimming, strength training and more.
Download songs and playlists from your Spotify, Deezer, Amazon Music or YouTube Music accounts for phone-free listening (subscription may be required).
If your watch senses that an incident occurred, it will send a message with your live location. Or if you feel unsafe, you can do it manually.
Breeze through checkout lines or transit systems with participating providers.
Receive emails, texts and alerts on your watch when paired with your iPhone or Android smartphone.
Friends and family can follow your real-time location and view preplanned courses.
See your health and fitness information, connect with friends and more.
Add watch faces, data fields and apps to your paired watch.
Easily follow the same course or workout with your friends. Share saved locations, courses and workouts with other nearby Garmin Share compatible devices.