Stream Your Favorite Music

The Forerunner 245 Music gives you multiple options for enjoying your favorite music while working out. Regardless of which method you choose, you can conveniently stream to a pair of optional Bluetooth headphones. One method of music playback is via streaming music services, such as Deezer and Spotify, letting you access your custom playlists for ad-free listening. If you want to play a specific set of songs or audiobooks, the Forerunner 245 Music can hold approximately 500 tracks in its internal memory.

Performance Analytics with VO2 Max

Support for VO2 max and training status monitoring allows the Forerunner 245 Music to provide ratings and feedback that evaluate your performance. It will let you know if you're training at your peak or if you're pushing too hard. Know how your workouts are affecting your endurance, speed, and power with aerobic and anaerobic feedback. Recovery time is incorporated as well, letting you know exactly when you can tackle your next challenge. If you need to review your history, the Forerunner 245 Music lets you access your 7 days of exercise data and can compare it to an optimal range for your personal fitness and training history.

Wellness and Sleep

When you're not exercising, it's important to make sure you keep stress levels in check and get quality sleep. To help make sure you're adequately caring for your body between workouts, the Forerunner 245 Music can track light, deep, and REM stages of sleep, your movement throughout the night, and with the built-in Pulse Ox sensor, it can measure your body's blood oxygen saturation. It also has all-day stress monitoring with a relaxation-breathing timer. When triggered, its guided breathing helps to calm you. All of this feeds into your Body Battery data, which gives you an indication of how much energy you have in reserve at any moment.

Garmin Connect and Garmin Coach

The Forerunner 245 Music supports both Garmin Connect and Garmin Coach, which are tools to help you get advice and help with your training regime. Garmin Community is an online fitness community for sharing achievements, providing and supplying motivation with others, and challenges you can join to push you further along in achieving your fitness goals. Garmin Coach gives you access to expert coaches and free training plans that are adaptable to your personal fitness goals.

Stay Connected

Pair the Forerunner 245 Music with your smartphone and you'll gain the ability to stay connected with the outside world while working out. Receive text messages, social media updates, emails, and more right on your wrist.

Safety Tracking

When paired with your smartphone, you can use the safety-tracking feature to share your location with specific contacts. If you are lost, hurt, or otherwise in need of help, you can use this feature to manually contact someone. There is also built-in incident detection that can contact someone for you automatically when triggered.

Connect IQ Store Support

Access the Connect IQ Store to customize your Forerunner 245 Music with more personality and functionality. Download apps, widgets, watch faces, and more.

Become a Better Runner

It's one thing to monitor your achievements, but it's entirely something else to monitor how you achieve them. With the addition of an (optional) compatible heart rate strap or Running Dynamics Pod, this sports smartwatch can analyze and provide feedback on critical running metrics, such as cadence, stride length, ground contact time and balance, vertical oscillation, and vertical ratio. Combining all of these metrics together can provide you with a better understanding of how you run and what you may need to change to possibly achieve better results.

Clock Features

Time/date
GPS time sync
Automatic daylight-saving time
Alarm clock
Timer
Stopwatch
Sunrise/sunset times

Sensors

GPS/GLONASS/Galileo
Garmin Elevate wrist heart rate monitor
Compass
Accelerometer
Pulse Ox

Daily Smart Features

Text response/reject phone call with text (Android Only)
Calendar
Weather
Smartphone music control
Watch music control
Find My Phone
Find My Watch
VIRB camera remote support

Safety and Tracking Features

Incident detection during select activities via smartphone pairing
Assistance via smartphone pairing
LiveTrack
Live event sharing (Android Only)

Activity Tracking Features

Step counter
Move bar to motivate after a period of inactivity
Auto goal assignment
Calories burned
Distance traveled
Intensity minutes
TrueUp
Move IQ
Fitness age

Gym and Fitness Equipment Features

Activity profiles for strength, cardio, elliptical, stair stepping, indoor rowing, and yoga
Automatic rep counting

Training, Planning, and Analysis Features

GPS speed and distance
Customizable data pages
Customizable activity profiles
Auto pause
Interval training
Advanced workouts
Auto lap
Manual lap
Configurable lap alerts
Customizable alerts
Audio prompts
Finish time
Virtual partner
Race an activity
Course guidance
Touch and/or button lock
Auto scroll
Activity history on watch
Physio TrueUp

Heart Rate Features

HR zones, alerts, and calories
% HR max
% HRR
Auto max HR
HR broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+ to paired devices)

Running Features

Running, treadmill running, indoor track running, and trail running profiles
GPS-based distance, time and pace
Performance condition (after running 6-20 minutes, compares your real-time condition to your average fitness level)
Run workouts
Race predictor
Foot pod capable

Outdoor Recreation Features

Point-to-point navigation
Bread crumb trail in real time
Back to start
TracBack
UltraTrac mode
Distance to destination
GPS coordinates

Cycling Features

Biking and indoor biking profiles
Courses
Race an activity
Time/distance alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goal)
Compatible with Varia Vision head-mounted display
Compatible with Varia lights
Speed and cadence sensor support with optional sensor

Swimming Features

Pool swimming profile
Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke, count/rate, calories)
Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, or butterfly)
Swim efficiency (SWOLF)
Drill logging
Pool swim workouts