Garmin Forerunner® 965 Running Smartwatch, Colorful AMOLED Display, Training Metrics and Recovery Insights, Black and Powder Gray, 010-02809-00

The Best Training Watch on the Shelves
The Garmin 965 is the standard by which every other running watch should be judged. Battery life is excellent, the build is tough, and the thing just works. I’ve banged it around on trail runs, soaked it with sweat and salt and pool water, and dragged it through travel without a second thought. It takes the abuse off a kettlebell being slammed against it on my wrist and doesn’t flinch. The AMOLED screen is bright enough to read in full sun and makes the older displays feel dated. It adds just the right amount of sharpness and color without feeling like a gimmick. The wrist-based HR is not perfect, but just as good as anything else out there.There’s not much to critique. It’s a very complete training tool, and the smart features work well, though I hardly use them.

The best fitness watch, in my opinion.
I’m a big runner, who previously had an Apple Watch. Gotta say, this watch is significantly better than the Apple Watch.It has a significantly better battery life (over 20 days), tracks your sleep, workouts, and heart rate better than competitors.Only downside is that it’s software is slightly less modern and intuitive than my Apple Watch, but all the benefits outweigh the drawbacks in my opinion.I’ve had this watch for about a year and don’t regret purchasing it at all. There’s been consistent updates which have only improved the overall experience.If you’re a runner or big into fitness, you’ll love this watch.

Great value for the money if you are looking for a solid fitness watch with good metrics
This GPS sports watch was not cheap, but compared to others in its class it is one of the best value for the money. After three years it is still working like new, I wear it every day and the health and fitness reports are indispensable.And of course it does a fine job of instrumenting my daily runs, which is why I bought it in the first place. Love this watch and would recommend it or any of the newer versions.

Great watch!
It’s a great watch with many cool features. I like the lactate threshold auto detection feature that does not require a chest strap heart monitor. I also love the free garmin coach/training program that helped me successfully run a half marathon. No subscription is required. Highly recommend it.

Ich bin sehr begeistert. Nach der in die Jahre gekommenen fenix5 hatte ich zeitweise mit einer Applewatcht meine Läufer aufgezeichnet. Nachdem diese aber einem Sturz zum Opfer viel, war die Überlegung, mit welcher Uhr ich demnächst meine Läufer tracken will. Da mich die Robustheit der fenix5 überzeugt hatte und mir auch das garmin connect sehr gut gefällt hab ich mich bei Garmin umgeschaut. Die Vivoactiv fand ich erst ganz interessant aber dann entdeckte ich die forerunnerSerie. Dieses Model bietet ohne Ende Daten und Analysen und misst alles äußerst genau. Einzig das Armband musste ich gegen ein Metallarmband wechseln, da es bei mir zu Juckreiz am Handgelenk kam, was natürlich auch eine allärgische Reaktion von mir sein kann und bei anderen Menschen nicht genau so auftreten muss. Bin insgesammt sehr zufrieden mit dieser Uhr.

This watch does absolutely everything, the screen is beautiful, battery life is excellent and with only GPS tracking a few light activities, I was rewarded with 13 days of battery with it around 2% remaining, so quite simply put it has functioned exactly as expected. The watch body seems very light and comfortable – the silicone?? strap has perfect adjustability, and just feels “right”. I was surprised by little things, such as the “strength” activity tracking actually correctly detected when I was doing reps of various exercises, and you can track metrics like weight (and others) to review and inform progress, which you can correct/edit later if an error was made. Neato.Some minor perturbances if I’m being picky – sometimes the heartrate monitor is sluggish, which is not the best when you’re trying to observe quick changes resulting from effort/output in your activity compared to HR recovery time for example. Also, sometimes when you’re twisting your wrist to have the screen wake, it doesn’t, and you have to repeat once or a couple times more. Doesn’t happen often, and if it bothered me enough and I didn’t mind whatever increased battery burn-rate that equates to, I would enable the screen always on. There’s more little improvements they can make, I can list a few more, but I’m sure they will update and patch a lot of this stuff throughout it’s support lifecycle.All in all, such a solid product. Synced well with speed/cadence sensors, and other Garmin products like inReach Mini 2. It looks classy and is still pragmatic and functional. Doesn’t look boorish. Buy it, and you won’t regret it! Expensive, but what should something like this cost? It seems fair for what it does and is capable of.