The GARMIN Forerunner 265 smartwatch combines the most advanced technologies and the most sophisticated design. With a morning report, up to 13 days of battery life in smartphone mode, a compact design for smaller wrists, Garmin Coach, personalized daily recommended training programs, a training skill score and more, it provides maximum support for everyday activities and sports. All information displayed on a color amoled touch screen.

Morning report
Immediately after waking up, you'll get an overview of your sleep and training outlook - along with HRV status and weather. You can even customize the report to show what you want to see.

Garmin Coach
Training for an event, reaching a milestone, or improving your fitness with Garmin Coach training plans for running, cycling or strength training. 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 the Garmin Run and Cycling Coach, which creates training plans tailored to your performance, recovery and health indicators. Whether you want to build muscle or simply increase your fitness level, strength training plans are designed to help optimize your body's performance and endurance.

Recommended daily exercise programs
Get personalized training sessions based on your data. These run suggestions vary in intensity and are modified after each run, taking into account performance and recovery.

Training preparedness
From the moment you wake up, you'll receive a readiness score based on your sleep quality, recovery, training load, and more, so you can decide if it's a good day to train hard—or take it easy.

Training status
Metrics like HRV status, recent training history, and performance make it easy to gain insight into your overall effort—and whether you're training productively, at your peak, or at your best.

HRV status
Thanks to technology developed by the Firstbeat Analytics™ team, you can gain a deeper understanding of your overall health, training and recovery by measuring heart rate variability during sleep.

Health features:
• Recovery time: Find out how much time you need to recover before your next strenuous workout based on your recent workouts.
• Courses: Create or search for existing courses in the Garmin Connect™ app or sync from your favorite third-party platforms.
• Sleep Coach: Get a sleep score and personalized advice on how much sleep you need and how to improve it. Track different sleep stages and naps – and view key metrics like HRV status to better understand your health.
• Body Battery™ energy monitoring: Track your energy levels throughout the day, so you'll know when your body is energized and ready for activity, or when you're drained and need to recharge with a restful sleep. And you'll gain even more detail and personal insight into how sleep, napping, daily activities, and high stress specifically affect your energy.
• Snooze detection: You can automatically track or log your naps to see how they benefit your body and to check the recommended time and duration.
• Breathing changes: To learn more about your health, the breathing changes function helps you understand the changes in your breathing habits during sleep. These shifts may be related to the environment, alcohol, or possible sleep disorders such as sleep apnea.
• Race Predictor: Get an estimate of how fast you can run 5km, 10km, half marathon and marathon.
• Track Women's Health: Track and log your menstrual cycle or pregnancy to receive exercise and nutrition education.

Preparation:
• Wrist-based running dynamics: This smartwatch measures important running metrics like step count, stride length, ground contact time, and more.
• Wrist-based heart rate monitoring: The watch continuously measures your heart rate to help gauge how hard you're working during activities.
• Acute load: Compare your most recent training load with your optimal range to improve your fitness.
• Training effect: See how your workouts affect your endurance, speed and strength.
• Performance status: You can analyze your pace and heart rate while running to assess your current performance in real time.
• VO2 Max: See your current fitness level and track changes over time to reach your goals