WHAT YOU’LL LOVE

MORNING REPORT

Receive an overview of your sleep¹ and training outlook as soon as you wake up — alongside HRV status and weather. You can even customise your report to show you what you want to see.

GARMIN COACH

Prepare for your next race, train for a milestone, or simply improve your fitness with Garmin  Coach adaptive or prebuilt  running, cycling or strength training plans. For more personalised workouts, select plans even adapt based on your performance and health metrics.

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 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.

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.

HRV Status

Gain a deeper understanding of your overall health, training and recovery through heart rate variability, while you sleep, based on technology developed by our Firstbeat Analytics™ team.

LIGHT, BRIGHT AND MADE FOR ANY DISTANCE

Recovery time

Know how long you need to recover before your next high-effort workout based on your latest training.

Courses

Create or find existing courses in the Garmin Connect app, or sync from your favourite third party platforms.

SLEEP COACH

Get personalised coaching for how much sleep you need and tips on how you can improve. Use this guidance to find the right balance between challenging activities and your body’s natural recovery process².

BODY BATTERY™ ENERGY MONITORING

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 energy¹.

NAP DETECTION

Automatically track or log your naps to see how they benefit your body and to check the recommended time and duration they should be.

BREATHING VARIATIONS

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.

RACE PREDICTOR

Get an estimate of what your pace could be for a 5K, 10K, half marathon and marathon.

WOMEN’S HEALTH TRACKING

Track and log your menstrual cycle or pregnancy to get exercise and nutrition education.

WRIST-BASED RUNNING DYNAMICS

This running smartwatch measures crucial running metrics such as cadence, stride length, ground contact time and more.

WRIST-BASED HEART RATE

This running watch constantly samples your heart rate to help you gauge how hard you work during activities¹.

ACUTE LOAD

Compare your recent training load to the optimal range to help improve your fitness.

Training effect

See how your workouts influence your endurance, speed and power.

PERFORMANCE CONDITION

While you run, get an analysis of your pace and heart rate for a real-time assessment of your current ability to perform.

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.

Health Snapshot

Log a 2-minute session to record key health stats, then generate a report to share with your healthcare provider.

STRESS TRACKING

Find out if you’re having a calm, balanced or stressful day.

PULSE OX SENSOR

Track your blood oxygen saturation while you’re awake or asleep².

Audio prompts

Get alerts to know how you’re performing and even be guided through workouts.

CROSS TRAINING

Download free HIIT, strength, cardio, yoga and Pilates workouts to your Forerunner® 265S so you can switch up how you sweat.