And new safety and tracking features make it easy to share your location with chosen contacts in case you need assistance - manually, or automatically with built-in incident detection, if needed. Once paired with your compatible smartphone, you’ll be able to receive text messages and see social media updates, emails and more right on your wrist. Your Forerunner 245 Music can start tracking these metrics with the addition of a compatible heart rate strap or the compact Running Dynamics Pod, which clips right onto your waistband.įorerunner 245 Music makes it easy to run without leaving important smart features behind. These measurements are the key to understanding your form, so you can bring your best on every run and at every race. The watch measures crucial running metrics such as cadence, stride length, ground contact time and balance, vertical oscillation and vertical ratio. The Forerunner 245 Music GPS smartwatch also has the tools you need to improve your running form. 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. As part of your training plan, it can even help you predict your race time.
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. Or, if you’ve got a specific goal in mind for your next 5K, check out Garmin Coach.
Create your own custom workouts, or download free ones that sync right to your watch.
Running is what you do, so train smarter with the tools available from our Garmin Connect online fitness community. 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. Recovery time helps you maximize the benefit of your efforts by predicting when you will be ready for your next tough challenge. See how your workouts influence the development of endurance, speed and power with aerobic and anaerobic training effect feedback. Training status evaluates your recent exercise history and performance indicators to let you know if you’re training productively, peaking or overreaching. And the higher your VO2 max, the higher you can expect to perform, which is exactly what is shown by the performance condition metric. It keeps tabs on your VO2 max and understands how heat and altitude impact your performance. 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’s easy to transfer music from your computer and then queue up your favorite playlist for easy listening through headphones enabled with BLUETOOTH technology. You can even store up to 500 songs right on your watch.
Sync your carefully crafted playlists from select music streaming services - such as Deezer and Spotify - to your watch for ad-free listening. If you can’t run without the perfect playlist, you won’t be able to run without Forerunner 245 Music. All you need to focus on is putting one foot in front of the other. 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. 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 even gets to know you, mile after mile and song after song.