Forerunner 245 running watch with advanced training features
You do the running. Forerunner 245 does the thinking. This GPS smartwatch doesn't just tell you where you ran. It 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.
Highlights des Garmin Forerunner 245
- Heart rate measurement at the wrist
- Advanced physiological features such as training status, recovery time, VO2max, aerobic and anaerobic training effects
- Automatic incident detection
- Extended running efficiency values
- Personal training plans and Garmin Coach 2.0 for 5, 10 and 20 km goals
- Body Battery™ monitors the energy level of your body
- Connected Features as Smart Notifications and Live Tracking
- Pre-installed sports apps for running, cycling, yoga and much more
- Running analysis - refine your technique and run more economically
- Battery life up to 7 days in Smartwatch mode and up to 24 hours in GPS mode
Details of the Garmin Forerunner 245
Advanced performance analytics
What amount of training is right for you? Forerunner 245 offers personalised 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 maximise the benefit of your efforts by predicting when you will be ready for your next tough challenge. You can even view your overall training load, which measures your exercise volume from the last 7 days and compares it to the optimal range for your fitness and recent training history.
More ways to work out
Running is what you do, so train smarter with the tools available from the
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 also has activity profiles for cycling, pool swimming, indoor rowing and even for using the elliptical or stair-stepper.
Analyse your running form
The Forerunner 245 GPS smartwatch also has the tools you need to improve your running form. The watch measures crucial running metrics 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 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.
More ways to customise
Check out the
Garmin Connect IQ Store, where you can add personality to Forerunner 245 by downloading apps, widgets, watch faces and more. It's easy and — even better — it's free. New apps are added every day, so you can keep tabs on when your Uber will arrive, challenge yourself with the Strava Relative Effort app, and even use the AccuWeather MinuteCast app to find out when the rain will start.
Stay connected on the run
Forerunner 245 makes it easy to run without leaving important smart features behind. Once paired with your compatible smartphone, you'll be able to receive text messages and see social media updates, emails and more right on your wrist. New safety and tracking features make it easy to share your location with chosen contacts in case you need assistance — manually, or automatically with built-in incident detection, if needed. So, lace up your shoes and head out with a little extra peace of mind.
Share and compete
Syncing your activities to Garmin Connect is for more than just storing your data. Garmin Connect is a thriving online community where people on the go can connect and compete by joining challenges, encourage each other's successes and even share their triumphs via social media. Garmin Connect is free and available on the web or on your smartphone.
Wellness and advanced sleep monitoring
The Forerunner 245 smartwatch has tools to help keep tabs on your overall well-being and the sleep you're getting at night. These tools provide crucial insight you can use to maximise your training. For example, it's Garmin´s first running watch to include a Pulse Ox sensor4. This wrist-based sensor estimates your body's blood oxygen saturation, which can help gauge how your body is absorbing oxygen — especially while you sleep. And to help you optimise your body's energy, Body Battery™ energy monitoring uses collected data to gauge your energy reserves at any moment, so you can plan your day to optimise times for activity and rest.
Specifications of Garmin Forerunner 245
General
- Physical dimensions: 42,3 x 42,3 x 12,2 mm (fits wrists with a circumference of 127 -204 mm)
- Display size: 1.2" (30.4 mm) diameter
- Display resolution: 240 x 240 pixels
- Display type: sunlight-visible, transflective memory-in-pixel (MIP) - color display
- Water rating: 5 ATM
- Battery life: Smartwatch Mode: Up to 7 days; GPS mode: Up to 24 hours
- Memory/history: 200 hours of activity data
Clock Features
- Time/date
- GPS Time Sync
- Automatic daylight saving time
- Alarm clock
- Timer
- Stopwatch
- Sunrise/sunset times
Sensors
- GPS, GLONASS, Galileo
- Garmin Elevate™ wrist heart rate monitor
- Compass
- Accelerometer
- Pulse oximeter acclimatization
Daily Smart Features
- Connectivity: Bluetooth® Smart, ANT+™
- Connect IQ™: downloadable watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps
- Smart Notifications
- Text response/reject phone call with text (Android™ only)
- Calendar
- Weather
- Controls smartphone music
- Find my Phone feature
- Find my Watch feature
- VIRB® camera remote
- Smartphone compatibility: iPhone®, Android®
- Compatible with Garmin Connect™ Mobile
Safety and tracking features
- Incident Detection during select activities - smartphone required
- Assistance - smartphone required
- LiveTrack
- Live Event Sharing (Android™ only)
Activity Tracking Features
- Step counter
- Move bar (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)
- Sleep monitoring (monitors total sleep and periods of movement or restful sleep)
- Calories burned
- Distance travelled
- Intensity minutes
- TrueUp™
- Move IQ™
- Fitness Age - in app
- Body Battery™ Energy Monitor
- All-day stress tracking
Fitness equipment/gym
- Available gym activity profiles: Strength training, Cardio training, Elliptical training, Stair stepping, Indoor rowing and Yoga
- Cardio workouts
- Strength workouts
- Automatic rep counting
Training, Planning and Analysis Features
- GPS speed and distance
- Customisable screen(s)
- Customisable activity profiles
- Auto Pause®
- Interval training
- Advanced workouts
- Downloadable training plans
- Auto Lap®
- Manual lap
- Configurable lap alerts
- VO2max
- Training status (lets you see if you’re training effectively by tracking your training history and fitness level trend)
- Training load (your total training load for the last 7 days calculated from estimated EPOC)
- Training effect (aerobic & anaerobic)
- Customisable alerts
- Audio prompts
- Finish time
- Virtual partner
- Race an activity
- Course guidance
- Touch and/or button lock
- Auto scroll
- Activity history on watch
- Physio TrueUp
Heart Rate Features
- Heart rate zones
- Heart rate alerts
- Heart rate calories
- % of heart rate max
- % of heart rate reserve
- Recovery time
- Automatic maximum heart rate
- Heart Rate Broadcast (broadcasts heart rate data over ANT+™ to paired devices)
Running Features
- Available run profiles: Running, Treadmill running, Indoor track running, Trail running
- GPS-based distance, time and pace - with compatible accessory
- Vertical oscillation and ratio (the degree of 'bounce' in your running motion and the cost-benefit ratio with stride length) - with compatible accessory
- Ground contact time and balance (shows how much time, in the running motion, your foot is on the ground rather than in flight and lets you check your running symmetry) - with compatible accessory
- Stride length (real time) - with compatible accessory
- Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute)
- Performance condition (after running 6 – 20 minutes, compares your real-time condition to your average fitness level)
- Run workouts
- Race predictor
- Foot pod capable
Outdoor recreation features
- Point-to-point navigation
- Breadcrumb trail in real time
- Back to start
- TracBack®
- UltraTrac mode
- Distance to destination
- GPS coordinates
Cycling features
- Available cycling profiles: Biking, Indoor Biking
- Courses
- Race an activity
- Time/distance alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goal)
- Compatible with Varia Vision™ (head-mounted display)
- Compatible with Varia™ radar (rear-facing radar)
- Compatible with Varia™ lights
- Speed and cadence sensor support (with sensor)
Swimming features
- Available swim profiles: Pool swimming
- Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count/rate, calories)
- Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly)
- Swim efficiency (SWOLF)
- Drill logging
- Pool swim workouts
Connectivity
- Smartphone compatibility: iPhone®, Android™
(optional) Auxiliary equipment: HRM-Dual Heart Rate Monitor
HRM-Run - Heart Rate Monitor + Strap
Running Dynamics Pod
Foot Pod SDM4 ANT+
Speed Sensor 2
Cadence Sensor 2
tempe Wireless ANT+ Temperature Sensor
Quick Release Armband
Included in delivery: Forerunner 245, USB charging/data cable, Documentation
Kind of functions: Daily smart features
Safety and tracking features
Activity tracking
Training, planning and analysis features
Running features
Outdoor recreation features
Cycling features
Swimming features
Fitness equipment/Gym features
Material: lens: Corning® Gorilla® glass 3
bezel: Fiber-reinforced polymer
wristband: silicone
Size in mm (L/W/H): 42,3 x 42,3 x 12,2 mm (fits wrists with a circumference of 127-204 mm)
Speciality: Wrist-based Heart Rate Measuring
Stress Level
Training Plans & Garmin Coach
Training Effect
VO2Max
Body Battery
Automatic Incident Detection
Smart Notifications
Pre-installed sports apps
Weight supplement: manufacturer information
