Garmin Forerunner 945 is the GPS smartwatch that's designed for the driven, the qualifiers, the elite. We made this watch for you: the up-at-dawn runners and the conditioned-for-pain triathletes. While you chase your next victory, make sure you've got the right tool for the job.
Main features:
- Sync music from select premium streaming services or store up to 1,000 songs on your watch, and connect with headphones (sold separately) enabled with Bluetooth® technology for phone-free listening.
- Performance monitoring features include VO2 max and training status with adjustments for heat, altitude acclimation status, training load focus, recovery time, and aerobic and anaerobic training effects.
- Garmin Pay™ contactless payment solution lets you make convenient payments with your watch so you can leave your cash and cards at home.
- Full-colour, onboard maps guide you on your run so you never get lost during your workout.
- Safety and tracking features include incident detection (during select activities) and assistance; both send your real-time location to emergency contacts.
- Battery life: up to 2 weeks in smartwatch mode, 10 hours in GPS mode with music or up to 60 hours in UltraTrac™ mode.
Features:
- Lens material: Corning® Gorilla® Glass DX.
- Bezel material: Fibre-reinforced polymer.
- QuickFit™ watch band compatible: Yes (22 mm).
- Strap material: Silicone.
- Dimensions: 47 x 47 x 13.7 mm.
- Fits wrists with a circumference of 130-220 mm.
- Weight: 50 g.
- Water rating: 5 ATM.
- Display size: 1.2" (30.4 mm) diameter.
- Display resolution: 240 x 240 pixels.
- Display type: Colour display; Sunlight-visible, transflective memory-in-pixel (MIP).
- Battery life: Up to 2 weeks (Smartwatch mode); Up to 10 hours (GPS mode with music); Up to 36 hours (GPS mode without music).
- Reference: 010-02063-01.
In the box:
- Forerunner 945 GPS watch.
- Charging/data cable.
- Documentation.
Functions:
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.
- Barometric altimeter.
- Compass.
- Gyroscope.
- Accelerometer.
- Thermometer.
- Pulse Ox.
Daily smart features:
- Connectivity: Bluetooth®, ANT+®, Wi-Fi®.
- 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.
- Plays and controls watch music.
- Music storage: Up to 1,000 songs.
- Find my phone.
- Find my watch.
- VIRB® camera remote.
- Smartphone compatibility: iPhone®, Android™.
- Compatible with Garmin Connect™ Mobile.
- Garmin Pay™.
Safety and tracking features:
- Incident Detection during select activities: Yes (Smartphone required).
- Assistance: Yes (Smartphone required).
- LiveTrack.
- Group LiveTrack.
- Live Event Sharing: Android™ Only.
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.
- Floors climbed.
- Distance travelled.
- Intensity minutes.
- TrueUp™.
- Move IQ™.
- Fitness age: Yes (in app).
- Body Battery™ Energy Monitor.
- All-day stress tracking.
Fitness equipment/gym:
- 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.
- Customisable screen(s).
- Customisable activity profiles.
- Auto Pause®.
- Interval training.
- Advanced workouts.
- Downloadable training plans.
- Auto Lap®.
- Manual lap.
- Configurable lap alerts.
- Heat and altitude acclimation.
- 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 load focus.
- Training effect (aerobic).
- Training effect (anaerobic).
- Primary benefit (Training Effect labels).
- Customisable alerts.
- Audio prompts.
- Finish time.
- Virtual partner.
- Race an activity.
- Auto multisport activities.
- Multi-sport.
- Course guidance.
- Segments (Live, Garmin).
- Strava features (Beacon, live segments).
- Round-trip course creator (running/cycling).
- Trendline™ popularity routing.
- Touch and/or button lock.
- Hot keys.
- 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.
- HRV stress test (measures your heart rate variability while standing still, for 3 minutes, to provide you with an estimated stress level; the scale of this is 1 to 100; low scores indicate lower stress levels): Yes (with compatible accessory).
- Records heart rate while swimming: Yes (with HRM-Tri™ and HRM-Swim™).
- HR broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+™ to paired devices).
- Respiration rate (during exercise): Yes (with compatible accessory).
Running features:
- Available run profiles: Running, indoor track running, treadmill 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).
- Lactate threshold (through analysis of your pace and heart rate, estimates the point where your muscles start to rapidly fatigue): Yes (with compatible accessory).
- Run workouts.
- Race predictor.
- Foot pod capable.
Golfing features:
- Preloaded with 41,000 courses worldwide.
- Yardage to F/M/B (distance to front, middle and back of green).
- Yardage to layups/doglegs.
- Measures shot distance (calculates exact yardage for shots from anywhere on course): Automatic.
- Digital scorecard.
- Stat tracking (strokes, putts per round, greens and fairways hit).
- Garmin AutoShot™.
- Auto CourseView updates.
- Green View with manual pin position.
- Hazards and course targets.
- TruSwing™ compatible.
- Round timer/odometer.
Outdoor recreation features:
- Available outdoor recreation profiles: Hiking, climbing, skiing, snowboarding, XC skiing, stand-up paddleboarding, rowing, kayaking.
- Point-to-point navigation.
- Breadcrumb trail in real time.
- Back to start.
- TracBack®.
- UltraTrac mode.
- Around Me mode.
- Elevation profile.
- Distance to destination.
- Barometric trend indicator with storm alert.
- ClimbPro™ ascent planner.
- Trail run auto climb.
- Vertical speed.
- Total ascent/descent.
- Future elevation plot.
- Preloaded topographical maps.
- Downloadable cartography support.
- Compatible with BaseCamp™.
- GPS coordinates.
- Projected waypoint.
- Sight 'N Go.
- Area calculation: Yes (via Connect IQ™).
- Hunt/fish calendar: Yes (via Connect IQ™).
- Sun and moon information: Yes (via Connect IQ™).
- Dual grid coordinates.
- XERO™ Locations.
Cycling features:
- Available cycling profiles: Biking, indoor biking, mountain biking.
- Courses.
- Bike lap and lap maximum power (with power sensor).
- Race an activity.
- Time/distance alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goal).
- FTP (Functional threshold power): Yes (with compatible accessory).
- Garmin cycle map (routable cycling-specific street map).
- Compatible with Vector™ (power meter).
- Power meter compatible (displays power data from compatible third-party ANT+™-enabled power meters).
- Advanced Vector support.
- 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.
Swimming features:
- Available swim profiles: Pool swimming, open water swimming.
- Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count/rate, calories).
- Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly).
- Swim efficiency (SWOLF).
- Drill logging.
- Pool swim workouts.
- Open-water swim metrics (distance, pace, stroke count/rate, stroke distance, calories).
- Heart rate (real-time during rests, interval and session stats during rests, and automatic heart rate download post-swim): Yes (with HRM-Tri™ and HRM-Swim™).
Connectivity:
- Smartphone compatibility: iPhone®, Android™.
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