Garmin Forerunner 745 Watch for Watches

This GPS running watch is made for runners and triathletes like you who need detailed training stats and on-device workouts plus smartwatch functions.

Technologies

Battery Life – Get up to 1 week of battery life in smartwatch mode and 6 hours in GPS mode with music. Use UltraTrac mode to make sure you’ve got enough juice to outlast your longest race.
Designed for Any Environment – Forerunner 745 is made to go where your sport takes you. It’s built to hold up to 200 sweaty runs, bumpy bike rides and long swims.
Durable Yet Wearable – Comfortable for training, racing and for everyday life, Forerunner 745 is our smallest and lightest full-featured running and triathlon smartwatch.
Daily Workout Suggestions – For training guidance that takes you and your fitness level into account, get daily run and ride recommendations based on your current training load and training status.
Training Effect – See how your workouts influence the development of endurance, speed and power with aerobic and anaerobic training effect feedback.
Recovery Time – After each workout, recovery time lets you know when you’ll be ready for another hard workout. It even accounts for training intensity and factors such as stress, daily activity and sleep.
Built-In Sports Apps – Get built-in activity profiles for running, cycling, triathlon, pool and open water swimming, track running and more. For races and brick workouts, switch sports with just one button press.
VO2 Max – Train smarter with VO2 max, an indicator of how you can expect to perform. This metric even accounts for changes in performance that could be caused by heat or altitude.
Race Predictor – This specialised tool takes into account your fitness level and training history to help you work toward your race goal and see the impact of training on your predicted finish time.
Performance Condition – While you run, Forerunner 745 analyses pace, heart rate2 and heart rate variability for a real-time assessment of your current ability to perform.
Training Load – This 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 – This metric evaluates your recent exercise history and performance indicators to let you know if you are training productively, 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 – Get hassle-free heart rate data2, including advanced heart rate alerts and other features, to help you get the most out of your workouts.
Running Dynamics – When used with a compatible accessory3, Forerunner 745 measures crucial running metrics such as cadence, stride length, ground contact time and balance, and more.
Multi-GNSS – Access multiple global navigation satellite systems (GPS, GLONASS and Galileo) to better track in more challenging environments than GPS alone.
Garmin Coach – These free adaptive training plans feature guidance from expert coaches and adapt to you and your goals. Workouts sync right to your watch.
Create More Courses – Create courses in our Garmin Connect app4, so you’ll never run out of places to run. Or plan one on other platforms such as Strava and Komoot, then automatically sync them to your Forerunner.
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 roads (and trails) most travelled.
Garmin Pay Contactless Payments – Breeze through checkout lines and select transit systems with Garmin Pay contactless payment solution1 through participating providers.
Music on Your Wrist – Sync your playlists from select music streaming services right to your watch. Forerunner 745 can store up to 500 songs.

Features

Clock

Time/date    
Gps Time Sync    
Automatic Daylight Saving Time    
Alarm Clock    
Timer    
Stopwatch    
Sunrise/sunset Times

Health Monitoring

Wrist-based Heart Rate (Constant, Every Second)    
Daily Resting Heart Rate    
Abnormal Heart Rate Alerts (High And Low)
Respiration Rate (24×7)    
Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation (Spot-check, and Optional All-day Acclimation And In Sleep)
Fitness Age (In App)
Body Battery Energy Monitor    
All-day Stress    
Relaxation Breathing Timer    
Sleep Advanced)
Sleep Score And Insights    
Hydration (In Garmin Connect and Optional Connect IQ Widget)
Women’s Health (In Garmin Connec 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 Remote    
Smartphone Compatibility: Iphone & Android
Pairs With Garmin Connect Mobile    
Garmin Pay

Safety and Tracking

Livetrack    
Group Livetrack    
Live Event Sharing: Android Only
Incident Detection During Select Activities    
Assistance

Tactical

Dual Grid Coordinates

Activity Tracking

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 Traveled    
Intensity Minutes    
Trueup    
Move IQ   
Garmin Connect Challenges App – Yes (Optional connect IQ app)

Gym and Fitness Equipment

Vailable 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

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) (with compatible accessory)
HR broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANTt+ to paired devices) (using ANT+ or BLE)
Gps speed and distance    
Customisable data pages    
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 (run)    
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    
Training effect (anaerobic)    
Primary benefit (training effect labels)
Custom alerts    
Audio prompts    
Finish time    
Virtual partner    
Race an activity    
Auto multisport activities    
Manual multisport activities    
Course guidance    
Garmin live segments    
Strava live segments    
Round-trip course creator (running/cycling) (in Garmin Connect)
Trendline popularity routing (in Garmin Connect)
Touch and/or button lock
Hot keys
Auto scroll
Activity history on watch  
Physio trueup

Running

Available run profiles – running, treadmill running, indoor and outdoor track running, virtual running, trail running
Gps-based distance, time and pace    
Running dynamics (with compatible accessory)
Vertical oscillation and ratio (the degree of ‘bounce’ in your running motion and the cost-benefit ratio with stride length) (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) (with compatible accessory)
Stride length (real time) (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) (with compatible accessory)
Pacepro pacing strategies    
Run workouts    
Race predictor    
Foot pod capable

Outdoor Recreation

Available outdoor recreation profiles – hiking, skiing, snowboarding, backcountry skiing, XC classic and skate skiing, stand up paddleboarding, kayaking, rowing
Point-to-point navigation    
Bread crumb trail in real 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 (via connect IQ)
Hunt/fish calendar (via connect IQ)
Sun and moon information (via connect IQ)

Cycling

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) (with compatible accessory)
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 (w/sensor)

Swimming

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, 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)    
Auto rest (pool swim only)    
Time and distance alerts    
Pacing alerts (pool swim only)    
Countdown start (pool swim only)    
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) (with HRM-tri, HRM-Swim and HRM-Pro)

Kid Activity Tracking

Toe-to-Toe challenges app (optional connect IQ app)

Specifications

What’s in the Box?

Forerunner 745
USB cable
Documentation