Forerunner 245 Music

• Sync with music streaming services, such as Spotify, to easily store and play your favourite songs right from your watch
• Evaluates your current training status to indicate if you’re undertraining or overdoing it, offers additional performance monitoring features
• Provides advanced running dynamics, including ground contact time balance, stride length, vertical ratio and more
• Safety and tracking features, such as built-in incident detection, make it easy to share your location
• Battery life: up to 7 days in smartwatch mode; up to 6 hours in GPS mode with music

You do the running. This GPS running smartwatch does the thinking. It even gets to know you, mile after mile and song after song. Here’s something to sing about: music storage right on your wrist. Monitor your training load to see if you’re fully owning it or just overdoing it. Prep for your next race like a boss with free Garmin Coach adaptive training plans. Finesse your form by tracking running dynamics1. Finesse your form by tracking running dynamics1. Up to 6 hours in GPS mode with music that’ll take you all the way to the finish. It’s sleek and lightweight perfect for running and everyday wear. Featuring a sweatproof silicone band and durable Corning Gorilla Glass 3, Forerunner 245 Music can handle whatever’s ahead. These adaptive training plans feature guidance from expert coaches and free training plans that adapt to you and your goals. Workouts sync right to your watch. Switch up your workout routine with activity profiles for cycling, pool swimming, indoor rowing, elliptical, stair-stepper and more. Get heart rate data3 along with alerts if your heart rate stays too high or too low while you’re at rest. Gauge how hard your heart is working during activities, even underwater. Track where you run, and get accurate stats, including distance, pace and intervals. When used with a compatible accessory, Forerunner 245 Music measures crucial running metrics such as cadence, stride length, ground contact time and balance and more. Train smarter with VO2 max, an indicator of how you can expect to perform. This metric even accounts for changes in performance that could be caused by heat or altitude. This wrist-based sensor estimates your body’s blood oxygen saturation4, which can help gauge how your body is absorbing oxygen especially while you sleep. This metric evaluates your recent exercise history and performance indicators to let you know if you’re training productively, peaking or overreaching. See how your workouts influence the development of endurance, speed and power with aerobic and anaerobic training effect feedback. This stat measures your exercise volume from the last 7 days and compares it to the optimal range for your fitness and recent training history. Run your heart out with a watch that’s got the power to keep up. You’ll get up to 7 days of battery life in smartwatch mode and up to 6 hours in GPS mode with music. Track your body’s energy levels so you can find the best times for activity and rest. Track period cycle details, log physical and emotional symptoms, and note regular, irregular or menopause transition cycles to better understand your body. Sync your playlists from select music streaming services5 such as Deezer, Amazon Music and Spotify right to your watch. Forerunner 245 Music can store up to 500 songs. Receive emails, texts and alerts right on your watch when paired with a compatible smartphone. If you feel unsafe or if your watch senses that an incident occurred, assistance and incident detection features2 send your location to emergency contacts. Download custom watch faces, add data fields, and get apps and widgets from the Connect IQ Store. Upload your activities to the Garmin Connect app to interact with a thriving online community where people on the go can connect and compete and even share their triumphs via social media.

GPS Running Smartwatch with Music and Advanced Training Features

You do the running. Forerunner 245 Music does the thinking. It even gets to know you, mile after mile and song after song. This GPS smartwatch has storage for your favorite tunes, so you can keep moving to the music without having to lug your phone along. It also tracks your stats, crunches the numbers and gets to know all about your performance, your running form, your training history and even your goals. All you need to focus on is putting one foot in front of the other.

Advanced Performance Analytics

What amount of training is right for you? Forerunner 245 Music offers personalized training and recovery insight for smarter training decisions, helping you prepare for your next race. It keeps tabs on your VO2 max and understands how heat and altitude impact your performance. The higher your VO2 max, the higher you can expect to perform, which is exactly what is shown by the performance condition metric. Training status evaluates your recent exercise history and performance indicators to let you know if you’re training productively, peaking or overreaching. See how your workouts influence the development of endurance, speed and power with aerobic and anaerobic training effect feedback. Recovery time helps you maximize the benefit of your efforts by predicting when you will be ready for your next challenge. You can view your overall training load, which measures

More Ways to Work Out

Running is what you do, so train smarter with the tools available from our Garmin Connect online fitness community. Create your own custom workouts, or download free ones that sync right to your watch. Or, if you’ve got a specific goal in mind for your next 5K, check out Garmin Coach. Featuring guidance from expert coaches and free training plans that adapt to you and your goals, it’s a foolproof way to get to the finish line. As part of your training plan, it can even help you predict your race time. What about when you want to switch it up? Forerunner 245 Music also has activity profiles for cycling, pool swimming, indoor rowing and even for using the elliptical or stair-stepper.

Analyze Your Running Form

The Forerunner 245 Music GPS smartwatch also has the tools you need to improve your running form. The watch measures crucial running metrics (when used with Running Dynamics Pod or HRM-Run™ or HRM-Tri™ monitors (sold separately)) such as cadence, stride length, ground contact time and balance, vertical oscillation and vertical ratio. These measurements are the key to understanding your form, so you can bring your best on every run and at every race. Your Forerunner 245 Music can start tracking these metrics with the addition of a compatible heart rate strap or the compact Running Dynamics Pod, which clips right onto your waistband.