GPS Running Smartwatch with Music and Advanced Training Features
Sync with music streaming services, such as Spotify®, to easily store and play your favorite songs right from your watch
Evaluates your current training status to indicate if you’re undertraining or overdoing it; offers additional performance monitoring features
Get free adaptive training plans from Garmin Coach, or create your own custom workouts on our Garmin Connect online fitness community
Provides advanced running dynamics², including ground contact time balance, stride length, vertical ratio and more
Safety and tracking features³, 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. 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. And 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 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 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.
Vertical oscillation and ratio (the degree of 'bounce' in your running motion and the cost-benefit ratio with stride length)
YES
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)
YES
Stride length (real time)
YES
Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute)
YES
Performance condition (after running 6–20 minutes, compares your real-time condition to your average fitness level)
YES
Run workouts
YES
Race predictor
YES
Foot pod capable
YES
Outdoor Recreation Features
Point-to-point navigation
YES
Bread crumb trail in real time
YES
Back to start
YES
TracBack
YES
UltraTrac mode
YES
Distance to destination
YES
GPS coordinates
YES
Cycling Features
Available cycling profiles
Biking, Indoor Biking
Courses
YES
Race an activity
YES
Time/distance alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goal)
YES
Compatible with Varia Vision (head-mounted display)
YES
Compatible with Varia radar (rear-facing radar)
YES
Compatible with Varia lights
YES
Speed and cadence sensor support (with sensor)
YES
Swimming Features
Available swim profiles
Pool Swimming
Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count/rate, calories)
YES
Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly)
YES
Swim efficiency (SWOLF)
YES
Drill logging
YES
Pool swim workouts
YES
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