Garmin Forerunner 165 Music

Pace, distance, heart rate
This easy-to-use GPS running smartwatch provides the essential features you need to take your running to the next level — including GPS, pace, distance and wrist-based heart rate¹.

Daily suggested workouts
Get workouts made for you. They adapt after every run to match your performance and recovery as well as the races coming up in your Garmin Connect smartphone app calendar.

Garmin coach
Get free adaptive 5K, 10K and half-marathon training plans from expert coaches to help you take on a new challenge.

Race adaptive training
Get ready for your race with training tips, personalised daily suggested workouts and completion time predictions based on race details you enter into Garmin Connect.

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.

Training effect
With training effect, you can see how your workouts impact your fitness and understand the primary benefit from training runs and workouts.

Long battery life
With up to 11 days in smartwatch mode and up to 19 hours in GPS mode, you’ll get a more complete picture of your health and training.

Recovery time
Know how long to recover before your next high-effort workout based on your latest training as well as overall stress, sleep and daily activities outside of workouts.

Sleep monitoring and sleep score
Understand how your body is recovering with sleep score, get a breakdown of your sleep stages, and gain detailed insights for improved sleep quality¹.

Body battery energy monitoring
Track your body’s energy levels to find the best times for activity and rest1. Even get details and insights on how sleep, naps, activities and stress impact your energy.

Courses
Create or find existing courses in the Garmin Connect app and from favourite third-party platforms, and sync directly to your watch.

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

Nap detection
Automatically track or log your naps to see how they benefit your body and what their ideal time and duration should be.

Women's health tracking
Track and log your menstrual cycle or pregnancy and get exercise and nutrition education.

Wrist-based heart rate
Constant measurement of your heart rate helps you gauge how hard you work during activities, so you can stay in the know all day and night¹.

Wrist-based running dynamics
Get measurements of crucial running metrics such as cadence, stride length, ground contact time and more to help improve your running form.

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 to help meet your goals.

HRV status
Gain a deeper understanding of your overall health, training and recovery through heart rate variability

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

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.

Cross training
Browse the Garmin Connect app for dozens of free HIIT, strength, cardio, yoga and Pilates workouts. You can even build your own in the app and send them to your watch.

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

Activity tracking
Keep tabs on your daily steps, calories burned, floors climbed and more from your wrist¹.

Fitness age
Estimate how fit you are compared to your actual age.

Built-in GNSS
Built-in sensors connect to multiple satellite systems so you track where you run, and get accurate stats, including distance and pace.

Wrist-based ruunning power
See how much power you’re applying to the trail or road so you can manage effort and fine-tune training.

Built-in sports apps
Tap in to 25+ built-in activities, including cycling, open-water swimming, strength training and more.

Track running
Record accurate lap distances, and see your distances in metres.

Pacepro feature
Plan race-day strategy with GPS-based pace guidance for a selected course or distance.

Music
Download songs and playlists from your Spotify, Deezer or Amazon Music accounts for phone-free listening with your wireless headphones.

Safety and tracking
If your watch senses that an incident occurred, it will send a message with your live location3. Or if you feel unsafe, you can do it manually.

Garmin Pay contactless payments
Breeze through checkout lines or transit systems with participating providers.

Smart notifications
Receive emails, texts and alerts on your multisport watch when paired with your iPhone® or Android™ smartphone.

Livetrack feature
Friends and family can follow your real-time location3 and view preplanned courses.

Garmin Connect app
See your health and fitness information, connect with friends and more.

Connect IQ store
Add watch faces, data fields and apps to your paired watch.

Sleep score and insights	Yes
Battery life (smartwatch mode)	Up to 11 days
Daily suggested workouts	Yes (7 days)
Pulse Ox blood oxygen saturation	Yes (spot-check, during sleep, all day)
Garmin Pay	Yes
Music storage	Yes
Watch display type	AMOLED (optional always-on mode)
Touchscreen	Yes
Watch water rating	5 ATM

Lens material	Chemically strengthened glass
Bezel material	Fibre-reinforced polymer
Quick release bands	Yes (20 mm, Industry standard)
Strap material	Silicone
Physical size	43 x 43 x 11.6 mm Fits wrists with a circumference of 126-203 mm
Weight	39 g
Display size	30.4 mm (1.2") diameter
Display resolution	390x390 pixels
Colour display	Yes
Large font option	Yes
Battery life	Smartwatch mode: Up to 11 days Battery Saver Smartwatch mode: Up to 20 days GPS-Only GNSS mode: Up to 19 hours All-Systems GNSS mode: Up to 17 hours GPS-Only GNSS mode with music: Up to 7 hours All-Systems GNSS mode with music: Up to 6.5 hours
Charging method	Garmin proprietary plug charger
Memory/history	4 GB

• Time/date    
• GPS time sync    
• Automatic daylight saving time    
• Alarm clock    
• Timer    
• Stopwatch    
• Sunrise/sunset times

• Wrist-based heart rate (constant, every second)    
• Daily resting heart rate    
• Abnormal heart rate alerts: yes (high and low)
• Respiration rate (24x7)    
• Fitness age    
• Body battery energy monitor    
• All-day stress    
• Relaxation reminders    
• Relaxation breathing timer    
• Breathwork    
• Sleep: yes (advanced)
• Nap detection     
• Hydration: yes (in Garmin Connect and optional Connect IQ widget)
• Women's health: yes (in Garmin Connect and optional Connect IQ widget)
• Health snapshot

• GPS    
• GLONASS    
• GALILEO
• Garmin Elevate wrist heart rate monitor    
• Pulse ox blood oxygen saturation monitor    
• Barometric altimeter    
• Compass    
• Accelerometer    
• Thermometer    
• Ambient light sensor

• Connectivity: Bluetooth, ANT+, Wi-Fi
• Connect IQ (downloadable watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps)    
• On-device connect IQ store    
• Smart notifications    
• Text response/reject phone call with text (android only)    
• View images from notifications on watch (android only)    
• Morning report    
• Calendar    
• Weather forecasts    
• Realtime settings sync with Garmin Connect mobile    
• Battery saver - customisable low power watch    
• Controls smartphone music    
• Plays and controls watch music    
• Find my phone    
• Find my watch    
• Compatible with Garmin Connect mobile    
• Smartphone compatibility: iphone, android

Gym	Strength, HIIT, Cardio, Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, Floor Climbing
Wellness	Walking, Pilates, Yoga
Indoor running	Treadmill Running, Indoor Track Running, Virtual running
Ootdoor running	Running, Outdoor Track Running, Trail Running, Ultra Running
Outdoor recreation	Hiking
Cycling	Biking, Indoor Biking
Swim	Pool Swimming, Open Water Swimming
Racket sports	Tennis, Pickleball, Padel

Incident detection during select activities    
Incident detection alert on phone for wearables    
Assistance    
Livetrack    
Live event sharing: android only

• Step counter    
• Move alerts (displays on device after a period of inactivity; walk for a couple of minutes to reset it)    
• Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal)    
• Calories burned    
• Floors climbed    
• Distance travelled    
• Intensity minutes    
• TrueUp    
• Move IQ   
• Garmin Connect challenges app: yes (optional Connect IQ app)

• Cardio workouts    
• Strength workouts    
• HIIT workouts    
• Yoga workouts    
• Pilates workouts    
• Automatic rep counting

• Customisable screen(s)    
• Downloadable training plans    
• Course guidance    
• Hr zones    
• Hr alerts    
• Hr calories    
• % hr max    
• % hrr    
• Recovery time    
• Auto max hr    
• Race glance/widget    
• Hrv status    
• Hr broadcast (broadcasts hr data over ANT+ to paired devices)    
• Respiration rate (during exercise): yoga and breathwork only
• Gps speed and distance 
• Customisable activity profiles 
• Auto pause
• Interval training 
• Advanced workouts 
• Hrm running pace and distance 
• Auto lap
• Manual lap  
• Rest timer  
• Configurable lap alerts    
• Vo2 max (run)    
• Vo2 max (trail run)    
• Training effect    
• Training effect (anaerobic)    
• Primary benefit (training effect labels)    
• Audio prompts    
• Finish time    
• Touch and/or button lock    
• Activity history on watch    
• Physio TrueUp

• GPS-based distance, time and pace    
• Running dynamics    
• Vertical oscillation and ratio    
• Ground contact time and balance: yes (but not balance)
• Stride length (real time)    
• Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute)    
• Running power    
• Pacepro pacing strategies    
• Run workouts    
• Race predictor    
• Course- and weather-specific race predictor    
• Foot pod capable    
• Run/walk/stand detection

• Point-to-point navigation    
• Breadcrumb trail in real time    
• Back to start    
• Tracback  
• Ultratrac mode    
• Elevation profile    
• Distance to destination    
• Total ascent/descent    
• Rest timer (ultra run only)    
• Auto rest    
• Future elevation plot    
• Area calculation: yes (via Connect IQ)
• Fish forecast: yes (via Connect IQ)
• Sun and moon information: yes (via Connect IQ)

• Courses    
• Alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goals including time, distance, heart rate or calories)    
• Compatible with Varia radar (rear-facing radar)    
• Compatible with Varia lights    
• Speed and cadence sensor support (w/sensor)

• Open-water swim metrics (distance, pace, stroke count/rate, stroke distance, swim efficiency (swolf), calories)    
• Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count, swim efficiency (swolf), calories)    
• Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly) (pool swim only)    
• Drill logging (pool swim only)    
• Basic rest timer (up from 0) (pool swim only)    
• "Repeat on" rest timer (pool swim only)    
• Auto rest (pool swim only)    
• Time and distance alerts    
• Countdown start    
• Underwater wrist-based heart rate

Toe-To-Toe challenges app	Yes (optional Connect IQ Toe-To-Toe challenges app)