What if every run was a podium-worthy performance? And from training readiness, did you know 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.

Training Readiness

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.

Full-Color Mapping

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.

Triathlon And Multisport Profiles

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.

Garmin Coach

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.

Daily Suggested Workouts

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.

Training Status

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.

Plan

With the Forerunner 965 Smartwatch, there is a variety of features that will help you easily plan and also get insights on your sleep, training, overall health, and more in one place, starting with the Morning Report. With the Garmin Connect app you can do courses with turn by turn directions provided ,if you know how far you want to go. Round-trip routing will provide routes to get you back. Recovery Time lets you 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. Body Battery monitor shows 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. More features are nap detection, HRV Status, Women's Health Tracking and Race Predictor.

Prepare

The smartwatch offers a variety of features to enhance running and overall fitness. It measures key running dynamics such as cadence, stride length, and ground contact time, while continuously monitoring heart rate during activities. The endurance score assesses the ability to sustain prolonged efforts by analyzing VO2 max and training loads. Additionally, the hill score evaluates performance on uphill runs, and acute load compares recent training with optimal levels to improve fitness. Users can track load ratios to maintain healthy training growth and receive real-time performance assessments during runs. The watch also monitors stress levels, shows the impact of workouts on endurance, speed, and power, and allows for health stat logging for reports to healthcare providers. Furthermore, it tracks blood oxygen saturation levels and includes a variety of preloaded workouts for cross-training, including HIIT, strength, cardio, yoga, and Pilates.