Garmin Forerunner 245 Music Smartwatch Black

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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