You Run, It Thinks
This GPS smartwatch tracks your stats, crunches the numbers and gets to know all about your performance, your running form, your training and even your goals.
A Design That Cuts Back On Bulk
It's sleek and lightweight - perfect for running and everyday wear.
Garmin Coach
These adaptive training plans feature guidance from expert coaches and free training plans that adapt to you and your goals. Workouts sync right to your watch.
Built-In Sport Apps
Switch up your workout routine with activity profiles for cycling, pool swimming, indoor rowing, elliptical, stair-stepper and more.
Wrist-Based Heart Rate
The watch constantly samples your heart rate and will alert you if it stays too high or too low while you're at rest. It also helps gauge how hard you work during activities. Even underwater.
Built-In GPS
Track where you run, and get accurate stats, including distance, pace and intervals.
Running Dynamics
When used with a compatible accessory, Forerunner 245 measures crucial running metrics such as cadence, stride length, ground contact time and balance and more.
VO2 Max
Train smarter with VO2 max, an indicator of how you can expect to perform. This metric even accounts for changes in performance that could be caused by heat or altitude.
Pulse OX Sensor
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.
Training Status
This metric evaluates your recent exercise history and performance indicators to let you know if you're training productively, peaking or overreaching.
Training Effect
See how your workouts influence the development of endurance, speed and power with aerobic and anaerobic training effect feedback.
Training Load
This stat measures your exercise volume from the last 7 days and compares it to the optimal range for your fitness and recent training history.
Menstrual Tracking
Track period cycle details, log physical and emotional symptoms, and note regular, irregular or menopause transition cycles to better understand your body.
Smart Notifications
Receive emails, texts and alerts right on your watch when paired with a compatible smartphone.
Safety And Tracking Features
If you feel unsafe or if your watch senses that an incident occurred, assistance and incident detection features send your location to emergency contacts.
Features:
- Display
- 1.2 inch, 240 x 240 pixels
- Sunlight-visible, transflective memory-in-pixel (MIP)
- Corning Gorilla Glass 3
Clock Features
- Time/Date
- GPS time sync
- Automatic daylight saving time
- Alarm clock
- Timer
- Stopwatch
- Sunrise/sunset times
Health Monitoring
- Wrist-based heart rate (Constant, every second)
- Daily resting heart rate
- Abnormal heart rate alerts
- Pulse OX blood oxygen saturation
- Fitness age
- All-day stress tracking
- Relaxation breathing timer
- Sleep
- Hydration
- Menstrual cycle
Sensors
- GPS
- Glonass
- Galileo
- Garmin elevate wrist heart rate monitor
- Compass
- Accelerometer
- Pulse OX blood oxygen saturation monitor
Daily Smart Features
- Smart Notifications
- Text response/reject phone call with text (Android only)
- Calendar
- Controls smartphone music
- Find my phone
- Find my watch
- Virb camera remote
Safety And Tracking Features
- Livetrack
- Live event sharing
- Incident detection during select activities
- Assistance
Activity Tracking Features
- Step counter
- Move bar
- Auto goal
- Calories burned
- Distance traveled
- Intensity minutes
- Trueup
- Move IQ
Fitness Equipment/Gym
- Strength training, Cardio training, Elliptical training
- Stair stepping, Indoor rowing and Yoga
- Cardio workouts
- Strength workouts
- Automatic rep counting
Training, Planning And Analysis Features
- HR zones
- HR alerts
- HR calories
- % HR max
- % HRR
- Recovery time
- Auto max HR
- HR Broadcast (Broadcasts HR data over ANT+ to paired devices)
- GPS speed and distance
- Customizable screen
- Customizable activity profiles
- Auto pause
- Interval training
- Advanced workouts
- Auto lap
- Manual lap
- Configurable lap alerts
- VO2 Max
- Training status and load
- Training effect (Aerobic/Anaerobic)
- Customizable alerts
- Audio prompts
- Finish time
- Virtual partner
- Race an activity
- Course guidance
- Touch and button lock
- Auto scroll
- Activity history on watch
- Physio Trueup
Running Features
- Running, Treadmill running, Indoor track running, Trail running
- GPS-based distance, time and pace
- Running dynamics
- Vertical oscillation and ratio
- Ground contact time and balance
- Stride length (Real time)
- Cadence (Provides real time number of steps per minute)
- Performance condition
- Pacepro pacing strategies
- 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
- Alerts (Triggers alarm when you reach goals including time, distance, heart rate or calories)
- Courses
- Biking, Indoor biking
- Race an activity
- Compatible with varia vision (Head-mounted display)
- Compatible with varia radar (Rear-facing radar)
- Compatible with varia lights
- Speed and cadence sensor support
Swimming Features
- Pool swimming
- Pool swim metrics (Lengths, distance, pace, stroke count, swim efficiency (swolf), calories)
- Stroke type detection
- Drill logging (Pool swim only)
- Basic rest timer (Up from 0) (Pool swim only)
- "Repeat On" rest timer
- Pool swim workouts
- Underwater wrist-based heart rate
Data
General
- Compatible with iPhone, Android and Garmin Connect mobile
- 42.3 x 42.3 x 12.2 mm
- 38.5 g