With the Garmin Forerunner 245 GPS, focus solely on running and cycling. The Garmin Forerunner 245 GPStracks your stats and processes the data to give you a complete picture of your performance, technique, workouts, and even your personal goals.
Monitor your training load to see if you’re keeping up with your pace or pushing too hard.
Keep running. Control your heart rate while you run with a watch that keeps pace with you. You’ll enjoy up to 7 days of battery life in smartwatch mode and up to 24 hours in GPS mode.
Prepare for your next Carrera like a pro with Garmin Coach’s free, adaptive training plans.
Improve your fitness by tracking your running dynamics.
We’ll keep you safe with incident detection and assistance features.
Refine your style and get your favorite apps—all for free—in the Connect IQ™ store.
RECOMMENDED DAILY WORKOUTS
For personalized training guidance, get daily Carrera recommendations at different intensities based on your training history, fitness level, and recovery time.
Garmin COACH
These offer guidance from expert coaches and free training plans tailored to you and your goals. Training sessions sync to your watch.
BUILT-IN SPORTS APPS
Switch between training sessions with activity profiles for cycling, pool swimming, track running, elliptical, stair climber, and many more.
HEART RATE FROM YOUR WRIST
Get heart rate data3 and alerts if it stays too high or too low while you’re at rest. Measure your heart’s intensity during activities, even underwater.
BUILT-IN GPS
Control where you run and get accurate stats, including distance, pace, and intervals.
RUNNING DYNAMICS
When used with a compatible accessory1, the Forerunner 245 calculates key running metrics such as cadence, stride length, ground contact time, balance, and more. key running metrics such as cadence, stride length, ground contact time, balance, and more.
MAXIMUM OXYGEN CONSUMPTION (VO2 MAX)
Train smarter with VO2 MAX, a metric that shows your expected performance. This metric even accounts for performance changes that may occur due to heat or altitude.
PULSE OXIMETER
This wrist sensor calculates blood oxygen saturation4, which helps measure how your body absorbs oxygen, especially while you sleep.
TRAINING STATUS
This metric evaluates your recent exercise history and performance indicators so you know if your training is productive, if you’ve reached peak fitness, or if you’re overtraining.
TRAINING EFFECT
See how your workouts influence the development of endurance, speed, and power with aerobic and anaerobic data from Training Effect.
TRAINING LOAD
This statistic measures your exercise volume over the past 7 days and compares it to the optimal range for your fitness level and recent training history.
CONTROL DE RECUPERACIÓN
After each training session, the built-in recovery time control will tell you how long you should rest before making another major effort. It even takes into account stress throughout the day, sleep, and daily activity outside of workouts.
INTENSITY MINUTES
Thanks to improvements based on WHO guidelines, you can now see when you’ve earned intensity minutes throughout the day and during which activities.
SMART NOTIFICATIONS
Receive emails, text messages, and alerts directly on your watch when paired with a compatible smartphone.
LIVETRACK FEATURE
Use LiveTrack to let your friends and family track your location in real time5 and even view your entire pre-planned route. Have peace of mind knowing that your loved ones know exactly where you are when you go out for a run or bike ride.
SAFETY AND TRACKING FEATURES
If your watch and phone are paired, you can manually send your live location to your Contacts or, during certain outdoor activities, automatically via the built-in incident detection feature2.
CONNECT IQ™ STORE
Download custom watch faces, add data fields, and get apps and widgets from the Connect IQ store.
SYNCHRONIZATION WITH GARMIN CONNECT™
Upload your activities to the Garmin Connect app to engage with a thriving online community where users can connect and compete, and even share their achievements on social media.
