Zoom Garmin Forerunner 245

Garmin Forerunner 245

$299.99
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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.

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

Connectivity Bluetooth®, ANT+®
Connect IQ™ (downloadable watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps)
Smart notifications
Text response/reject phone call with text (Android™ only)
Calendar
Weather
Controls smartphone music
Find My Phone
Find My Watch
VIRB® Remote
Smartphone compatibility iPhone® and Android™
Pairs with Garmin Connect™ Mobile

Safety and Tracking Features

LiveTrack
Live Event Sharing Android™ Only
Incident Detection during select activities yes (Smartphone Required)
Assistance yes (Smartphone Required)

Activity Tracking Features

Step counter
Move bar (displays on device after a period of inactivity; walk for a couple of minutes to reset it)
Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal)
Sleep monitoring (monitors total sleep and periods of movement or restful sleep)
Calories burned
Distance traveled
Intensity minutes
TrueUp™
Move IQ™
Fitness Age yes (in app)
Body Battery™ Energy Monitor
All-day Stress Tracking

Gym & Fitness Equipment

Available gym activity profiles Strength, Cardio and Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, Indoor Rowing and Yoga
Cardio workouts
Strength workouts
Automatic rep counting

Training, Planning and Analysis Features

GPS speed and distance
Customizable data pages
Customizable activity profiles
Auto Pause®
Interval training
Advanced workouts
Downloadable training plans
Auto Lap®
Manual lap
Configurable lap alerts
VO2 max
Training Status (lets you see if you’re training effectively by tracking your training history and fitness level trend.)
Training Load (your total training load for the last 7 days calculated from estimated EPOC)
Training Effect
Training Effect (anaerobic)
Custom 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
HR alerts
HR calories
% HR max
% HRR
Recovery time
Auto max HR
HR Broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+™ to paired devices)

Running Features

Available run profiles

Running, Treadmill Running, Indoor Track Running, Trail Running

GPS-based distance, time and pace
Running dynamics yes (with compatible accessory)
Vertical oscillation and ratio (the degree of 'bounce' in your running motion and the cost-benefit ratio with stride length) yes (with compatible accessory)
Ground contact time and balance (shows how much time, in the running motion, your foot is on the ground rather than in flight and lets you check your running symmetry) yes (with compatible accessory)
Stride length (real time) yes (with compatible accessory)
Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute)
Performance condition (after running 6–20 minutes, compares your real-time condition to your average fitness level)
PacePro™ Pacing Strategies
Run workouts
Race predictor
Foot pod capable

Outdoor Recreation

Point-to-point navigation
Bread crumb 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
Available cycling profiles

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 (with sensor)

yes (ANT+® and Bluetooth® Smart sensors)

Swimming Features

Available swim profiles

Pool Swimming

Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories)
Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly) (pool swim only)
Drill logging (pool swim only)
Basic rest timer (up from 0) (pool swim only)
"Repeat on" rest timer (pool swim only)
Pool swim workouts
Underwater wrist-based heart rate

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