Garmin Forerunner 745 GPS Watch

Garmin Forerunner 745 GPS Watch

The ultimate running and triathlon watch, the Garmin Forerunner 745 GPS Watch provides detailed training stats and on-device workouts plus a huge variety of smartwatch functions.

Daily Workout Suggestions

The Forerunner 745 delivers training guidance that takes your fitness level into account. The watch provides run and ride recommendations based on your current training load and training status.

Training Effect

See how your workouts influence the developments of endurance, speed and power with aerobic and anaerobic training effect feedback.

Recovery Time

See when it’s time to train and when you still need more time to recover with the Recovery Time feature. It considers training intensity and factors in such elements as stress, daily activity and sleep.

Built-In Sports Apps

The smartwatch comes with built-in activity profiles for running, cycling, triathlon, pool and open water swimming, track running and more. You can switch sports with just one button press.

VO2 Max

The VO2 Max feature helps you train smarter, working as an indicator of how you can expect to perform. This metric also accounts for changes in performance that could be caused by heat or altitude.

Race Predictor

The specialised Race Predictor tool uses your current fitness level and training history to help you work toward your race goal and allows you to see the impact of training on your predicted finishing time.

Performance Condition

While you’re running, the Forerunner 745 analyses your pace, heart rate and heart rate variability for a real-time assessment of your current ability to perform.

Training Load

The Training Load stat measures your exercise volume from the last 7 days and compares it to the optimal range for your fitness and recent training history.

Training Status

The Training Status metric evaluates your recent exercise history and performance indicators to let you know if your training is productive, peaking or overreaching.

Cycling Power

Connect to a compatible Garmin power meter (sold separately) to work toward a more efficient ride with help from cycling dynamics, FTP and advanced training methods.

Wrist-Based Heart Rate

Integrated into the wrist of the smartwatch is a heart rate monitor which delivers hassle-free heart rate data, including advanced heart rate alerts and other features – helping you to get the most out of your workouts.

Running Dynamics

When used with a compatible accessory (sold separately), the Forerunner 745 can be used to measure crucial running metrics such as cadence, stride, length, ground contact time, balance, and more.

Multi-GNSS

The watch uses multiple global navigation satellite systems including GPS, GLONASS, and Galileo to better keep track in more challenging environments.

Garmin Coach

The watch comes with free, adaptive training plans which feature guidance from expert coaches and adapt to you and your goals. Workouts sync right to your watch.

Create More Courses

You can create courses in the Garmin Connect app or plan one on other platforms such as Strava or Komoot, then automatically sync them to the Forerunner 745.

Trendline™ Popularity Routing

Using the billions of miles of data that runners and riders have uploaded, Garmin Connect can find the best route – choosing from the roads and trails most travelled.

In the Box

• Forerunner 745
• USB cable
• Documentation

Specifications

General

• Lens Material: Corning® Gorilla® Glass DX
• Bezel Material: Fibre-reinforced polymer
• QuickFit™ Watch Band Compatible: Yes (22mm)
• Strap Material: Silicone
• Physical Size: 43.8mm x 43.8mm x 13.3mm
• Colour Display
• Display Size: 30.4mm (1.2’’) diameter
• Display Resolution: 240 x 240 pixels
• Display Type: Sunlight-visible, transflective memory-in-pixel (MIP)
• Weight: 47g
• Battery Life: Up to 7 days (smartwatch mode), up to 6 hours (GPS mode with music), up to 16 hours (GPS mode without music), up to 21 hours (UltraTrac™ mode)
• Water Rating: 5ATM
• Memory/History: 200 hours of activity data

Clock Features

• Time/Date
• GPS Time Sync
• Automatic Daylight Saving
• Alarm Clock
• Timer
• Stopwatch
• Sunrise/Sunset Times

Health Monitoring

• Wrist-Based Heart Rate (Constant, Every Second)
• Daily Resting Heart Rate
• Abnormal Heart Rate Alerts: Yes (high and low)
• Respiration Rate (24 x 7)
• Pulse OX Blood Oxygen Saturation: Yes (spot-check, and optional all-day acclimation and in sleep)
• Fitness Age: Yes (in app)
• Body Battery™ Energy Monitor
• All-Day Stress Tracking
• Relaxation Breathing Timer
• Sleep
• Advanced Sleep Monitoring (Sleep Score and Insights)
• Hydration: Yes (in Garmin Connect™ and optional Connect IQ™ widget)
• Menstrual Cycle: Yes (in Garmin Connect™ and optional Connect IQ™ widget)

Sensors

• GPS
• GLONASS
• GALILEO
• Garmin Elevate™ Wrist Heart Rate Monitor
• Barometric Altimeter
• Compass
• Gyroscope
• Accelerometer
• Thermometer
• Pulse OX Blood Oxygen Saturation Monitor

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 500 songs
• Find My Phone
• Find My Watch
• VIRB® Camera Remote
• Smartphone Compatibility: iPhone® and Android™
• Compatible with Garmin Connect™ Mobile
• Garmin Pay™

Safety and Tracking Features

• LiveTrack
• Group LiveTrack
• Live Event Sharing: Android™ only
• Incident Detection During Select Activities
• Assistance
• Tactical Features
• Dual Grid Coordinates
• 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)
• Calories Burned
• Floors Climbed
• Distance Travelled
• Intensity Minutes
• TrueUp™
• Move IQ™

Fitness Equipment/Gym

• Available Gym Activity Profiles: Strength, Cardio and Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, Floor Climbing, Indoor Rowing, Pilates and Yoga
• Cardio Workouts
• Strength Workouts
• Yoga Workouts
• Pilates Workouts
• Automatic Rep Counting
• Training, Planning and Analysis 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 (only with compatible accessory – not included)
• HR Broadcast (Broadcasts HR data over ANT+™ to paired devices)
• 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 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
• Garmin Live Segments
• Strava 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

Running Features

• Available Run Profiles: Running, Treadmill Running, Indoor and Outdoor Track Running, Virtual Running, Trail Running
• GPS-Based Distance, Time and Pace
• Running Dynamics: Yes (with compatible accessory – not included)
• Vertical Oscillation and Ratio (the degree of ‘bounce’ in your running motion and the cost-benefit ratio with stride length): Yes (with compatible accessory – not included)
• 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 – not included)
• Stride Length (real time): Yes (with compatible accessory – not included)
• Cadence (provides real-time numbers 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 – not included)
• PacePro™ Pacing Strategies
• Run Workouts
• Race Predicator
• Foot Pod Capable

Outdoor Recreation Features

• Available Outdoor Recreation Profiles: Hiking, Skiing, Snowboarding, Backcountry Skiing, XC Classic and Skate Skiing, Stand up Paddleboarding, Kayaking, Rowing
• Point-to-Point Navigation
• Breadcrumb Trail in Rea Time
• Back to Start
• TracBack®
• UltraTrac 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
• GPS Coordinates
• Area Calculation: Yes (via Garmin IQ™)
• Hunt/Fish: Yes (via Garmin Connect™)
• Sun and Moon Information: Yes (via Garmin Connect™)

Cycling Features

• Alerts (Triggers alarm when you reach goals including time, distance, heart rate or calories)
• Courses
• Available Cycling Profiles: Biking, Indoor Biking, Mountain Trail Biking
• Bike Lap and Lap Maximum Power (with Power Sensor)
• Race an Activity
• FTP (Functional Threshold Power): Yes (with compatible accessory – not included)
• Compatible with Vector™ (Power Meter)
• Power Meter Compatible
• 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

Swimming Features

• Available Swim Profiles: Pool Swimming, Open Water Swimming, Swimrun
• Open-Water Swim Metrics (Distance, Pace, Stroke Count/Rate, Stroke Distance, Swim Efficiency (SWOLF), Calories)
• Pool Swim Metrics (Lengths, Distance, Pace, Stroke Count, Swim Efficiency (SWOLF), Calories)
• Stroke Type Detection (Freestyle, Backstroke, Breatstroke, Butterfly) (Pool Swim Only)
• Drill Logging (Pool Swim Only)
• Basic Rest Timer (Up from 0) (Pool Swim Only)
• “Repeat On” Rest Timer
• Auto Rest (Pool Swim Only)
• Time and Distance Alerts
• Pacing Alerts (Pool Swim Only)
• Countdown Start
• Pool Swim Workouts
• Critical Swim Speed
• Underwater Wrist-Based Heart Rate
• Heart Rate from External HRM (Real-time during rests, interval and session stats during rests, and automatic heart rate download post-swim): Yes (with HRM-Tri™, HRM-Swim™ and HRM-Pro™)

Kid Activity Tracking Features

• Toe-to-Toe™ Challenges: Yes (optional Connect IQ app)

Compatibility

Adapters

• AC Adapter Cable, Europe

Batteries

• Garmin Charge™ Power Pack

Bands

• Forerunner 745 Band

Cases and Covers

• Carrying Case

Heart Rate Monitors

• HRM-Tri
• HRM-Swim
• HRM-Dual
• HRM-Run
• Soft Strap with Electrodes
• Elastic Strap for Heart Rate Monitor (Small)
• Elastic Strap for Heart Rate Monitor
• HRM-Pro

Cables and Chargers

• Charging/Data Cable (0.5m)

Cycling Accessories

• Wristwatch Bike/Trolley Mount
• Bike Cadence Sensor Bands

Sensors

• Running Dynamic Pod
• Tempe
• Speed Sensor 2
• Cadence Sensor 2
• Bike Speed Sensor 2 and Cadence Sensor 2 Bundle

Devices

• Varia Rearview Bike Radar
• Varia RTL510
• Varia RTL515
• Varia RVR315
• Varia Smart Bike Lights
• Varia UT800 Smart Headlight
• Varia Vision In-Sight Display
• VIRB 360
• VIRB Ultra 30

Features

• Small and lightweight full-featured running and triathlon smartwatch
• Preloaded activity profiles including swim, bike, run and tri
• VO2 max, training load and more training stats right at your fingertips
• Get daily workout suggestions just for you, based on your recent training
• Sync your favourite music right to your watch
• Garmin Pay™ contactless payments let you make purchases with a tap of your wrist
• Up to 6 hours in GPS mode with music
• Ultra-rugged, built to hold up to 200 sweaty runs, bumpy bike rides and long swims

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