Garmin Forerunner 245 Music, GPS Running Smartwatch with Music and Advanced Training Features

Description

Garmin Forerunner 245 Music
GPS Running Smartwatch

You do the running. Garmin Forerunner 245 Music does the thinking. It even gets to know you, mile after mile, and song after song. 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 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.
So, all you need to focus on is putting one foot in front of the other.

★ Garmin Forerunner 245 Music is a GPS running smartwatch with music advanced training features.
Forerunner 245 syncs with music streaming services, such as Spotify, Deezer, and Amazon Music to easily store and play your favorite songs right from your watch.

★ It evaluates your current training status to indicate if you are undertraining or overtraining. Also, it offers additional performance monitoring features.

★ You can get free adaptive training plans from Garmin Coach, or create your own custom workouts on the Garmin Connect online fitness community.

★ Provides advanced running dynamics, such as stride length, ground contact time balance,  vertical ratio, and more (When used with Running Dynamics Pod or HRM-Run or HRM-Tri monitors (sold separately)).

★ Garmin Forerunner 245 Music safety and tracking features include incident detection (during select activities) which sends your real-time location to emergency contacts through your paired compatible smartphone.

Main Specifications:

• Battery Life: Up to 7 days in smartwatch mode; Up to 6 hours in GPS mode with music.
• Physical Size: 42.3 x 42.3 x 12.2 (millimeter). Fits wrists with a circumference of 127-204 millimeters.
• Display Size: 1.2 inch (30.4 millimeter) diameter.
• Lens Material: Corning Gorilla Glass 3, Bezel Material: fiber-reinforced polymer.
• Strap Material: silicone.

Forerunner 245 Music – Features and Benefits:

Workout with Music

If you cannot run without the perfect playlist, Forerunner 245 Music is the perfect smartwatch for you. Sync your carefully crafted playlists from select music streaming services (may require a premium subscription with a third-party music provider), such as Spotify,  Amazon Music, and Deezer to your watch for ad-free listening. You can even store up to 500 songs right on your watch. 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.

Advanced Performance Analytics

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 keeps tabs on your VO2 max and understands how heat and altitude impact your performance.
The higher your VO2 max, the higher you can expect to perform, which is exactly what is shown by the performance condition metric.

Training status evaluates your recent exercise history and performance indicators to let you know if you are training productively, peaking, or overtraining. So, you can see how your workouts influence the development of endurance, speed, and power with aerobic and anaerobic training effect feedback.

Recovery time helps you maximize the benefit of your efforts by predicting when you will be ready for your next workout. You can 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.

More Ways to Work Out

Runners can use the  Forerunner 245 to train smarter with the tools available from Garmin Connect online fitness community.
You can create your own custom workouts, or download free ones that sync right to your watch. Or, if you have got a specific goal in mind for your next 5K, check out Garmin Coach. 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.

As part of your training plan, this watch can even help you predict your race time. 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.

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