DESIGNED FOR THE DRIVEN
Garmin 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.
- Lens Material – Corning® Gorilla® Glass DX
- Bezel Material – Fiber-reinforced polymer
- Quickfit Watch Band Compatible – yes (22 mm)
- Strap Material – Silicone
- Physical Size – 47 x 47 x 13.7 mm; Fits wrists with a circumference of 130-220 mm
- Display Size – 1.2″ (30.4 mm) diameter
- Display Resolution – 240 x 240 pixels
- Display Type – Sunlight-visible, transflective memory-in-pixel (MIP)
- Weight – 50 grams
- Battery Life – Smartwatch Mode: Up to 2 weeks, GPS mode with music: Up to 10 hours, GPS mode without music: Up to 36 hours
- Water Rating – 5 ATM
- Color Display – Yes
- Memory/history – 200 hours of activity data
Clock Features
- Time/date – Yes
- GPS Time Sync – Yes
- Automatic daylight saving time – Yes
- Alarm clock – Yes
- Timer – Yes
- Stopwatch – Yes
- Sunrise/sunset times – Yes
Sensors
- GPS – Yes
- GLONASS – Yes
- Galileo – Yes
- Garmin Elevate™ wrist heart rate monitor – Yes
- Barometric altimeter – Yes
- Compass – Yes
- Gyroscope – Yes
- Accelerometer – Yes
- Thermometer – Yes
- Pulse Ox – Yes
Daily Smart Features
- Connect IQ™ (downloadable watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps) – yes
- Smart notifications – yes
- Text response/reject phone call with text (Android™ only) – yes
- Connectivity – Bluetooth®, ANT+®, Wi-Fi®
- Calendar – yes
- Weather – yes
- Controls smartphone music – yes
- Plays and controls watch music – yes
- Music Storage – Up to 1000 songs
- Find My Phone – yes
- Find My Watch – yes
- VIRB® Remote – yes
- Smartphone compatibility – iPhone®, Android™
- Compatible with Garmin Connect™ Mobile – yes
- Garmin Pay™ – yes
Safety and Tracking Features
- LiveTrack – yes
- Group LiveTrack – yes
- Live Event Sharing – Android™ Only
- Incident Detection during select activities – yes (Smartphone Required)
- Assistance – yes (Smartphone Required)
Tactical Features
- Dual grid coordinates – yes
Activity Tracking Features
- Step counter – yes
- Move bar (displays on device after a period of inactivity; walk for a couple of minutes to reset it) – yes
- Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal) – yes
- Sleep monitoring (monitors total sleep and periods of movement or restful sleep) – yes
- Calories burned – yes
- Floors climbed – yes
- Distance traveled – yes
- Intensity minutes – yes
- TrueUp™ – yes
- Move IQ™ – yes
- Fitness Age – yes (in app)
- Body Battery™ Energy Monitor – yes
- All-day Stress Tracking – yes
Gym & Fitness Equipment
- Available gym activity profiles – Strength, Cardio and Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, Indoor Rowing and Yoga
- Cardio workouts – yes
- Strength workouts – yes
- Automatic rep counting – yes
Training, Planning and Analysis Features
- GPS speed and distance – yes
- Customizable data pages – yes
- Customizable activity profiles – yes
- Auto Pause® – yes
- Interval training – yes
- Advanced workouts – yes
- Downloadable training plans – yes
- Auto Lap® – yes
- Manual lap – yes
- Configurable lap alerts – yes
- Heat and altitude acclimation – yes
- V02 max – yes
- Training Status (lets you see if you’re training effectively by tracking your training history and fitness level trend.) – yes
- Training Load (your total training load for the last 7 days calculated from estimated EPOC) – yes
- Training load focus – yes
- Training Effect – yes
- Training Effect (anaerobic) – yes
- Primary benefit (Training Effect labels) – yes
- Custom alerts – yes
- Audio prompts – yes
- Finish time – yes
- Virtual Partner – yes
- Race and Activity – yes
- Auto multisport activities – yes
- Manual multisport activities – yes
- Course guidance – yes
- Garmin Live Segments – yes
- Strava Live Segments – yes
- Round-trip course creator (running/cycling) – yes
- Trendline™ Popularity Routing – yes
- Touch and/or button lock – yes
- Hot keys – yes
- Auto scroll – yes
- Activity history on watch – yes
- Physio TrueUp – yes
Heart Rate Feature
- HR zones – yes
- HR alerts – yes
- HR calories – yes
- % HR max – yes
- % HRR – yes
- Recovery time – yes
- Auto max HR – yes
- 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)
- HR Broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+™ to paired devices) – yes
- Respiration rate (during exercise) – yes (with compatible accessory)
Running Features
- Available run profiles – yes
- Running, Indoor Track Running, Treadmill Running, Trail Running – yes
- GPS-based distance, time and pace – yes
- 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) – yes
- Performance condition (after running 6–20 minutes, compares your real-time condition to your average fitness level) – yes
- 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 – yes
- Race predictor – yes
- Foot pod capable – yes
Cycling Feature
- Alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goals including time, distance, heart rate or calories) – yes
- Courses – yes
- Cycle Map (routable cycling-specific street map) – yes
- Available cycling profiles – Biking, Indoor Biking, Mountain Biking
- Bike lap and lap maximum power (with power sensor) – yes
- Race an activity – yes
- FTP (Functional Threshold Power) – yes (with compatible accessory)
- Compatible with Vector™ (power meter) – yes
- Power meter compatible – yes
- Advanced Vector support – yes
- Compatible with Varia Vision™ (head-mounted display) – yes
- Compatible with Varia™ radar (rear-facing radar) – yes
- Compatible with Varia™ lights – yes
- Speed and cadence sensor support (with sensor) – yes
Swimming Features
- Available swim profiles – Pool Swimming, Open Water Swimming
- Open-water swim metrics (distance, pace, stroke count/rate, stroke distance, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories) – yes
- Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories) – yes
- Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly) (pool swim only) – yes
- Drill logging (pool swim only) – yes
- Basic rest timer (up from 0) (pool swim only) – yes
- “Repeat on” rest timer (pool swim only) – yes
- Countdown start (pool swim only) – yes
- Pool swim workouts – yes
- 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™ and HRM-Swim™)
In the Box
- Forerunner 945 GPS watch
- Charging cable
- Documentation























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