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Garmin Launches Forerunner 165
Garmin announces the launch of the Forerunner 165 Series in India on Global Running Day. This GPS-running smartwatch features a vibrant AMOLED touchscreen display, 11 days of battery life in smartwatch mode, and up to 19 hours in GPS mode. It includes a Pulse OX blood oxygen saturation monitor, barometric altimeter, floor climb, compass, and new-generation ambient light sensors.
The Forerunner 165 series is designed for professional runners and athletes, offering training modules and tracking capabilities. The smartwatch has a sleek, lightweight design with a 43mm case size and colorful, dual-shot bands. Users can listen to music without a phone by downloading playlists from Spotify or Amazon Music. The smartwatch also includes adaptive training plans, personalized daily workouts, built-in GPS for accurate pace and distance, and wrist-based heart rate monitoring.
Additional features of the Forerunner 165 Series:
- Wrist-Based Running Power and Dynamics: View real-time power and measure crucial running metrics.
- Training Effect: Understand how workouts affect fitness and their benefits.
- Courses: Create or find existing courses in the Garmin Connect app and from third-party platforms, syncing them directly to the watch.
- Activity Profiles and Workouts: Includes more than 25 activity profiles, such as trail running, open water swimming, pickleball, and tennis.
- Morning Report: Provides an overview of sleep and the day's training outlook, alongside HRV status and weather.
- Pulse Ox: Tracks blood oxygen saturation while awake or asleep.
- Sleep Monitoring and Sleep Score: Provides a personalized score for sleep every morning.
- Nap Detection: Automatically tracks naps and suggests optimal time and duration.
- Audio Prompts: Follow guided workouts or hear performance alerts with wireless headphones connected to the watch.
Commenting on the same, Dan Bartel, VP of Global Consumer Sales, Garmin said “At Garmin, it is our constant endeavor to provide our customers with a luxury experience coupled with premium quality, innovation and exceptional reliability. Garmin’s Forerunner 165 Series has been specifically designed for professional runners and athletes who need to improve their performance every day, by closely analyzing their training through monitoring pace, distance, wrist-based heart rate, VO2 max, and more. The Forerunner 165 Series has the required tools to help runners crush their next personal record.”
The Garmin Forerunner 165 Series offers adaptive training plans for race preparation. Athletes can input race details into Garmin Connect for tailored plans or use free Garmin Coach plans for 5K, 10K, and half marathons. The smartwatch provides 24/7 tracking for heart rate, sleep, and stress to evaluate overall well-being and optimize activity and rest. It also includes women's health tracking for menstrual cycle and pregnancy monitoring, along with exercise and nutrition education.