Forerunner 245 running watch for more effective and targeted training
Get the most out of your running. Forerunner 245 takes your running to the next level. With PhysioCheck, you can improve the effectiveness of your training every day. Always in view: your heart rate, measured at the wrist. Your Garmin even knows if your body is ready for the next workout or if you still need to regenerate. Individual training plans and a personal running coach help you reach your goals. And with the running analysis, you can refine your technique - until it is perfect.
Highlights of the Garmin Forerunner 245 running watch
- Heart rate measurement at the wrist
- Advanced physiological functions like training status, recovery time, VO2max, aerobic and anaerobic training effects
- Automatic accident detection
- Advanced running efficiency values
- Personal training plans and Garmin Coach 2.0 for 5, 10 and 20 km goals
- BodyBattery™ - shows you your body's energy level
- Connected features like smart notifications and live tracking
- Preloaded sports apps for running, cycling, yoga and more.
- Running analysis - refine your technique and run more economically
- Battery life up to 7 days in smartwatch mode and 24 hours in GPS mode
Details about the Garmin Forerunner 245
Train more effectively than ever before
How effective is your training really? Does it improve your performance? Or is it even counterproductive? Forerunner 245 provides personalized insights into your training and recovery so you can make better decisions about your training and optimize preparation for your next race. It keeps track of your VO2max and knows how heat and altitude affect your performance. The higher your VO2max, the better your expected performance. This is exactly what the power state shows you.
Training Status evaluates your recent workouts and performance indicators to determine if you're building form, at peak form, or overloaded with your training. See how your workouts are building endurance, speed and power. Feedback on aerobic and anaerobic Training Effect makes it possible. Recovery time information helps you get the most out of your efforts. To that end, a forecast is provided to indicate when you'll be ready for the next hard session. You can even view your overall training load. It compares your training volume over the last 7 days to the optimal range for your fitness level and recent workouts.
Training plans for your level
A plan makes it easier to reach your goals. Garmin helps you with personalised training plans. From after-work runs to marathons, there's something for everyone. Simply create a training plan via
Garmin Connect download it, and then start it right from your wrist.
If you're looking to hit a specific goal on your next 5k run, check out
Garmin Coach. With guidance from experienced coaches and free training plans that adapt to you and your goals, you're sure to reach the finish line. You can even get a race forecast as part of your training plan. And what about when you need a change of pace? Forerunner 245 gives you additional activity profiles for sports like cycling, swimming and your sessions on the cross trainer or stepper.
Refine your technique
Want more endurance? More speed? Your running performance depends not only on your fitness, but also on how economically you run. Find out with the run analysis feature on your Forerunner 245. The watch measures key running efficiency data such as stride rate, stride length, ground contact time and ground contact time balance, vertical movement and vertical ratio. These metrics are essential if you want to know your form and improve your technique. Forerunner 245 can store all of these metrics when you wear a compatible heart rate chest strap or the compact Running Dynamics Pod, which attaches to the waistband of your shorts.
As personal as you are
Check out the
Garmin Connect IQ Store and give your Forerunner 245 a personal touch with downloadable apps, widgets, screen themes and more. It's easy and free! New apps are added every day. For example, keep track of your Uber driver's arrival time, challenge yourself with the Strava Relative Effort app, and even find out if and when it's going to rain with the AccuWeather MinuteCast app.
Stay up to date
With Forerunner 245, you can stay connected while you run with smart notifications. Pair it with your compatible smartphone to receive text messages and see social media updates, emails and more right on your device. New security and tracking features allow you to easily share your location with select contacts when you need help. This can be done manually if needed or automatically with built-in accident notification. So put on your shoes and run with more confidence.
Share your activity
When you sync your activities with Garmin Connect, you're not just saving your data. Garmin Connect is a popular online community. Members can connect with others and compete in challenges, pushing and motivating each other. You can even share your successes on social media. Garmin Connect is free and available on the web or on your smartphone.
Keep an eye on your energy level
Do you have enough energy for your next run? Your Garmin helps you better assess your body's energy level. It evaluates your stress levels, heart rate variability, sleep3 and activity to determine your personal Body Battery™ value. If it's high, you can be active with a clear conscience. If it's low, you should give your body a rest. In addition, Forerunner 245 is Garmin's first running watch to feature a Pulse Ox sensor. The sensor on the wrist calculates the oxygen saturation of the blood. This value can be used to determine how well your body absorbs oxygen - especially during sleep.
Technical data of the Garmin Forerunner 245
General
- Dimensions: 42.3 x 42.3 x 12.2 mm (for a wrist circumference of 127 to 204 mm)
- Display size, W x H: 30.4 mm (1.2 inch) diameter
- Display resolution, W x H: 240 x 240 pixels
- Display type: Sunlight readable transflective MIP (Memory in Pixel) color display
- Battery life: Smartwatch mode: Up to 7 days; GPS mode: Up to 24 hours
- Water resistance: 5 ATM
- Memory/log: 200 hours of activity data
Watch functions
- Time/date
- GPS time synchronization
- Automatic daylight saving time
- Alarm clock
- Timer
- Stopwatch
- Sunrise and sunset times
Sensors
- GPS, GLONASS, Galileo
- Garmin Elevate™ technology for wrist-based heart rate monitoring
- Compass
- Accelerometer
- Pulse oximeter acclimatization
Daily smart features
- Connectivity: Bluetooth® Smart, ANT+™.
- Connect IQ™: downloadable display themes, data fields, widgets and apps.
- Smart Notifications.
- SMS reply/reject call via SMS (Android™ only).
- Calendar
- Weather
- Control music on your smartphone
- Find My Phone - phone search function
- Find My Watch - watch search function
- VIRB® camera remote control
- Smartphone compatibility: iPhone® and Android®.
- Compatible with Garmin Connect™ Mobile
Safety and tracking features
- Accident notification during certain activities - via smartphone
- Emergency assistance - via smartphone
- LiveTrack
- Live event sharing (Android™ only)
Activity features
- Pedometer
- Inactivity bar (displays on device after a period of inactivity; walk around for a few minutes to reset the display)
- Automatic goal (learns how active the user is and assigns a daily goal steps)
- Sleep monitoring (monitors total sleep time and periods of exercise or quiet sleep)
- Calories burned
- Distance traveled
- Intensity minutes
- TrueUp™
- Move IQ™
- Sport age - in app
- Body Battery™ energy monitor
- All-day stress tracking
Fitness equipment/studio
- Available gym activity profiles: Strength training, cardio workouts, cross-trainer workouts, stepper, rowing machine, and yoga
- Cardio workouts
- Strength workouts
- Automatic repetition counter
Training, planning and analysis functions
- GPS speed and distance
- Customizable data pages
- Customizable activity profiles
- Auto Pause®
- Interval Training
- Advanced Training
- Downloadable workout plans
- Auto Lap®
- Manual Lap
- Customizable lap alarms
- VO2max
- Training Status (so you know if you're training effectively by recording training data like VO2max and anaerobic threshold and comparing it to current data)
- Training Load (combines heart rate and VO2max data to assess intensity over a 28-day period to help you train in the optimal range for your goal)
- Training Effect (aerobic & anaerobic)
- Customizable alarms
- Audio announcements
- End Time
- Virtual Partner
- Virtual Racer™
- Route guidance on tracks
- Touchscreen and/or button locks
- Auto page change
- Activity log on the watch
- Physio TrueUp
Heart rate functions
- Heart rate zones
- Heart rate alerts
- Heart rate calories
- % of max. heart rate
- % of heart rate reserve
- Recovery Time
- Automatic maximum heart rate
- Heart rate transmission (sends heart rate data to paired devices via ANT+™).
Running features
- Available running profiles: Running, treadmill training, indoor track running, trail running
- GPS-based distance, time and pace data
- Running efficiency - with compatible accessories
- Vertical movement and vertical ratio (the high-low movement of your running motion and the cost-benefit ratio of stride length) - with compatible accessories
- Ground contact time and balance of ground contact time (describes the time from touchdown of the heel, ball or entire foot to leaving it through the toes and helps you run more symmetrically) - with compatible accessories
- Stride length (real time) - with compatible accessories
- stride rate (real-time number of steps per minute)
- Performance status (compares your current performance status with your average fitness level after running for 6 to 20 minutes)
- Running workouts
- Running time prediction
- Compatible with running sensor
Outdoor recreation features
- Point-to-point navigation
- Real-time track recording
- Back to the start
- TracBack
- UltraTrac mode
- Distance to destination
- GPS coordinates
Cycling functions
- Available cycling profiles: Cycling, Indoor cycling
- Routes (to compete against previous activities)
- Race against activities
- Time or distance alarm (when you reach a preset value, an alarm sounds)
- Compatible with Varia Vision™ (head-mounted display)
- Compatible with Varia™ radar (rear-facing radar)
- Compatible with Varia™ bike lights
- Support for speed and cadence sensors (with sensor)
Swim features
- Available swim profiles: Swimming pool
- Swimming pool functions (lanes, distance, pace, number of strokes/pulls, calories burned)
- Swimming style detection (crawl, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly)
- Swimming efficiency (SWOLF)
- Exercise recording
- Swimming workouts
Connectivity
- Smartphone compatibility: iPhone®, Android™.
(optional) additional equipment: HRM-Dual heart rate chest strap
HRM-Run - heart rate sensor + chest strap
Running Dynamics Pod running sensor
SDM4 ANT+ running sensor
tempeature wireless sensor ANT+
speed sensor 2
Cadence sensor 2
Quick-change wristband
Package contents: Forerunner 245, USB charging/sync cable, documentation
Type of functions: Daily smart features
Safety and tracking functions
Activity functions
Fitness functions
Heart rate functions
Training, planning and analysis functions
Running functions
Cycling functions
Outdoor functions
Swimming
Material: Watch crystal: Corning® Gorilla® Glass 3
Bezel: Fiber reinforced polymer
Bracelet: Silicone
Size in mm (L/W/H): 42.3 x 42.3 x 12.2 mm (for a wrist circumference of 127 to 204 mm)
Special features: Heart rate measurement at the wrist
Stress Level
Training plans & Garmin Coach
Training Effect
VO2Max
Body Battery
Automatic accident notification
Smartphone notifications
Pre-installed sports apps
Weight supplement: Manufacturer's specification
