November 4, 2025

Plus, why student athletes should train with Garmin.

If you’re a student athlete, you’re used to doing it all: balancing schoolwork, getting to practice on time, traveling for competitions and keeping up with friends.

If you’re a runner, triathlete or golfer looking for gear that can do it all too — whether that’s the best running smartwatch, heart rate monitor, bike computer, golf launch monitor and more — you’ve found the right place.

Gear for runners

Garmin running smartwatches — with an option for every budget and every runner, including advanced competitors and elite athletes — offer premium training and recovery tools to help you perform at your best. (We recommend our Forerunner® series.) With dedicated running and track-run activity profiles, you can easily keep track of your progress and improvement. When you start a running activity, it will track your pace, distance, heart rate¹, wrist-based running dynamics and more.

Training by heart rate zones? Take it to the next level with a compatible Garmin heart rate monitor (HRM). Plus, the premium HRM 600 (paired with Forerunner 970) will give you access to additional dynamics, including running economy and step speed loss.

Gear for triathletes

Garmin multisport and triathlon smartwatches, heart rate monitors, power meters, bike computers and indoor trainers can help you swim, bike and run to the finish line. Select Garmin smartwatches can automatically record splits with built-in profiles for triathlons, duathlons, brick workouts and swimruns. Plus, you can create custom step-by-step multisport workouts in the Garmin Connect™ app and send them to your compatible watch to seamlessly switch to different sports.

If you’re a triathlete who wants the most accurate heart rate data, you can benefit from Garmin HRMs. With these, you can accurately track your heart rate in real time and sync to your favorite training device. You can even customize specific heart rate zones for running, cycling and swimming.

Edge cycling computers include bike-specific mapping (with preloaded maps) and advanced training features to help you get to peak performance. If you want the best-of-the-best, we recommend Edge^® 1050. This is our most advanced GPS computer and has a bright and vivid display, as well as up to 20 hours of battery life in the most demanding situations or up to 60 hours in battery saver mode.

Ride all year long with Tacx® smart trainers, such as the top-of-the-line NEO 3M indoor smart trainer, for a highly accurate ride (including power and cadence accuracy measured to within 1%), most realistic feel and multidirectional movement.

For additional ways to monitor your performance, browse Rally™ power meters. To stay more visible and get alerts for approaching vehicles, consider adding on a Varia™ rearview radar.

Gear for golfers

First things first, you’ll want to upgrade your golf game with Garmin golf laser rangefinders, so you can choose your club and plan your path to the hole with precision. These rangefinders help take the guesswork out of your golf game. Plus, you can still take your rangefinder to tournaments. Tournament mode, shown by an external indicator light that can be turned on and off, disables features such as PinPointer and PlaysLike Distance.

Our rangefinders also integrate with Garmin GPS golf smartwatches. These lightweight watches won’t interfere with your swing. Plus, Garmin golf smartwatches offer a tournament mode so you can use them during tournament play.

On the course, you’ll get features such as AutoShot game tracking² (which automatically tracks where your shots land) and PlaysLike Distance (which tells you how far each shot is playing with yardage adjusted for elevation changes). When you golf with Garmin, you’ll also gain access to even more, including:

• Premium CourseView maps: You’ll see a more realistic and detailed overview of the course.
• Touch targeting: Make informed decisions about club selection and shot strategy with touch targeting. Simply touch the screen to measure precise distances to any map point, such as hazards, layups and the pin.
• Green contour data: See the slope direction of the green so you can plan the best shot approach.

Select Garmin golf smartwatches pair with the Approach^® CT10 club tracking sensors or Approach CT1 club tracking tags for shot-tracking capabilities that give you a clearer picture of your game so you can view accuracy stats and see how far you typically hit each club.

Approach R50, a premium golf launch monitor with a built-in simulator, is the perfect tool for your team to dial in at practice. Three advanced high-speed cameras capture each frame of ball movement so each golfer can get precise metrics³ to help fine-tune their form. For individual practice, consider the Approach R10 portable…