Product Description
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.
General
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Lens Material |
Corning Gorilla Glass 3 |
Bezel Material |
fiber-reinforced polymer |
Quick Release Bands |
yes (20 mm, Industry standard) |
Strap material |
silicone |
Physical size |
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) |
Weight |
38.5 g |
Battery life |
Smartwatch Mode: Up to 7 days
GPS mode with music: Up to 6 hours
GPS mode without music: Up to 24 hours |
Water rating |
Swim, 5 ATM |
Color display |
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Memory/History |
200 hours of activity data |
Clock Features
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Time/date |
YES |
GPS Time Sync |
YES |
Automatic daylight saving time |
YES |
Alarm clock |
YES |
Timer |
YES |
Stopwatch |
YES |
Sunrise/sunset times |
YES |
Sensors
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GPS |
YES |
GLONASS |
YES |
Galileo |
YES |
Garmin Elevate wrist heart rate monitor |
YES |
Compass |
YES |
Accelerometer |
YES |
Daily Smart Features
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Connectivity |
Bluetooth, ANT+, Wi-Fi |
Connect IQ (downloadable watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps) |
YES |
Smart notifications |
YES |
Text response/reject phone call with text (Android™ only) |
YES |
Calendar |
YES |
Weather |
YES |
Controls smartphone music |
YES |
Plays and controls watch music |
YES |
Music Storage |
up to 500 songs |
Find My Phone |
YES |
Find My Watch |
YES |
VIRB Camera Remote |
YES |
Smartphone compatibility |
iPhone and Android™ |
Compatible with Garmin Connect Mobile |
YES |
Safety and Tracking Features
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Incident Detection during select activities |
(Smartphone Required) |
Assistance |
(Smartphone Required) |
LiveTrack |
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Activity Tracking Features
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Step counter |
YES |
Move bar (displays on device after a period of inactivity; walk for a couple of minutes to reset it) |
YES |
Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal) |
YES |
Sleep monitoring (monitors total sleep and periods of movement or restful sleep) |
YES |
Calories burned |
YES |
Distance traveled |
YES |
Intensity minutes |
YES |
TrueUp |
YES |
Move IQ |
YES |
Fitness Age |
(in app) |
Body Battery Energy Monitor |
YES |
All-day Stress Tracking |
YES |
Gym & Fitness Equipment
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Available gym activity profiles |
Strength Training, Cardio Training, Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, Indoor Rowing and Yoga |
Cardio workouts |
Yes |
Strength workouts |
Yes |
Automatic rep counting |
Yes |
Training, Planning and Analysis Features
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GPS speed and distance |
YES |
Customizable data pages |
YES |
Customizable activity profiles |
YES |
Auto Pause |
YES |
Interval training |
YES |
Advanced workouts |
YES |
Downloadable training plans |
YES |
Auto Lap |
YES |
Manual lap |
YES |
Configurable lap alerts |
YES |
V02 max |
YES |
Training Status (lets you see if you’re training effectively by tracking your training history and fitness level trend.) |
YES |
Training Load (your total training load for the last 7 days calculated from estimated EPOC) |
YES |
Training Effect (aerobic) |
YES |
Training Effect (anaerobic) |
YES |
Customizable alerts |
YES |
Audio prompts |
YES |
Finish time |
YES |
Virtual Partner |
YES |
Race an Activity |
YES |
Course guidance |
YES |
Touch and/or button lock |
YES |
Auto scroll |
YES |
Activity history on watch |
YES |
Heart Rate Features
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HR zones |
YES |
HR alerts |
YES |
HR calories |
YES |
% HR max |
YES |
% HRR |
YES |
Recovery time |
YES |
Auto max HR |
YES |
HR Broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+ to paired devices) |
YES |
Running Features
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Available run profiles |
Running, Treadmill Running, Indoor Track Running, Trail Running |
GPS-based distance, time and pace |
YES |
Running dynamics |
YES |
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
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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
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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
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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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