
2025 Garmin Forerunner® 745
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This GPS running watch is made for runners and triathletes like you who need detailed training stats and on-device workouts plus smartwatch functions.
In the Box
- Forerunner 745
- USB cable
- Documentation
Swim, Bike, Run, Tri — Do It All with Preloaded Activity Profiles.
Have Enough Juice For Any Race. Get Up to 6 Hours In Gps Mode with Music.
Obsessed with Stats? This Watch Is Too. Get Vo2 Max, Training Load and More At Your Fingertips.
Get Daily Workout Suggestions Just For You, Based On Your Recent Training.
the Right Tunes Are Essential. Sync Your Favorite Music Right to Your Watch.
Garmin Pay™ Contactless Payments Let You Make Purchases with A Tap Of Your Wrist 1 .
BATTERY LIFE
Get up to 1 week of battery lifein 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 recommendationsbased 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 effectfeedback.
RECOVERY TIME
After each workout, recovery timelets 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 specialized tooltakes 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 analyzes pace, heart rate 2and heart rate variability for a real-time assessment of your current ability to perform.
TRAINING LOAD
This statmeasures 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 metricevaluates your recent exercise history and performance indicators to let you know if you’re 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 ratedata 2, 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 accessory 3, Forerunner 745 measures crucial running metricssuch 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™ app, 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 traveled.
INTENSITY MINUTES
With improvements based on guidance from the CDCand WHO, now you can understand when you earned daily intensity minutesand during what activity.
ANIMATED ON-SCREEN WORKOUTS
Easy-to-follow, animated cardio, strength, yoga, Pilates and high-intensity interval training workouts are available for download from the Garmin Connect app.
PULSE OX SENSOR
This wrist-based sensor 4monitors blood oxygen saturation levels to provide a clearer picture of how you’re sleeping or how you’re adjusting to altitude.
BODY BATTERY™ ENERGY MONITORING
Track your body’s energy levelsso you can find the best times for activity and rest.
SLEEP SCORE AND ADVANCED SLEEP MONITORING
Get a score for your sleep’s qualityand insights on how you can do better. Even keep track of the different sleep stages as well as heart rate, stress, Pulse Ox 4and respiration.
WOMEN'S HEALTH TRACKING
Use the Garmin Connect ™ appto track your menstrual cycleor pregnancy. Log symptoms, get exercise and nutrition education, and more. Even get details on your wrist with the Menstrual Cycle Tracking widgetand Pregnancy Tracking app.
MUSIC ON YOUR WRIST
Download up to 500 songs, plus playlists from your Spotify®, Deezer or Amazon music accounts (subscription may be required).
GARMIN PAY CONTACTLESS PAYMENTS
Breeze through checkout lines and select transit systems with Garmin Pay contactless payment solution through participating providers.
SMART NOTIFICATIONS
Receive emails, texts and alerts right on your watch when paired with your compatible smartphone.
SAFETY AND TRACKING FEATURES
If you feel unsafe or if your watch senses that an incident occurred, assistance and incident detection features 5send your location to emergency contacts. Incident detection is enabled by default for select activity profiles only.
CONNECT IQ™ STORE
Download custom watch faces, add data fields, and get apps and widgets from the Connect IQ Store.
SYNC WITH GARMIN CONNECT
Upload your activities to the Garmin Connect appto interact with a thriving online community where people on the go can connect and compete — and even share their triumphs via social media.
Click for Important Safety and Product Information
1View current supported country, payment network and issuing bank information
2Activity tracking accuracy
3When used with Running Dynamics Pod or HRM-Run™ or HRM-Tri™ monitors (sold separately)
4This is not a medical device and is not intended for use in the diagnosis or monitoring of any medical condition; see Garmin.com/ataccuracy. Pulse Ox not available in all countries.
5When paired with a compatible smartphone. For safety and tracking features requirements and limitations, see Garmin.com/safety.
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Engineering enhancements are ongoing and may not be reflected in the pictures, videos and specifications.
- Weight:
- 47 g
- Battery Life:
- Smartwatch mode: Up to 7 days GPS mode with music: Up to 6 hours GPS mode without music: Up to 16 hours UltraTrac™mode: Up to 21 hours See Details
- Garmin Pay™:
- ✔
- Display Size:
- 1.2 (30.4 mm) diameter"
- Display Resolution:
- 240 x 240 pixels
- Color Display:
- ✔
- GPS:
- ✔
- Glonass:
- ✔
- Galileo:
- ✔
- Barometric Altimeter:
- ✔
- Gyroscope:
- ✔
- Sensors-Accelerometer:
- ✔
- Connectivity:
- Bluetooth®, ANT+®, Wi-Fi®
- Connect Iq™(DownloadaBLE Watch Faces, Data Fields And Apps):
- ✔
- Smart Notifications:
- ✔
- Text Response/Reject Phone Call With Text (Android™Only):
- ✔
- Weather Forecasts:
- ✔
- Controls Smartphone Music:
- ✔
- Virb® Remote:
- ✔
- Charging Method:
- Garmin proprietary plug charger
- Sleep Score And Insights:
- ✔
- Battery Life (Smartwatch Mode):
- Up to 7 days
- Pulse OX Blood Oxygen:
- yes (spot-check, and optional all-day acclimation and in sleep)
- Music Storage:
- ✔
- Training Status:
- ✔
- What You'll Love-Display Type:
- Sunlight-visible, transflective memory-in-pixel (MIP)
- What You'll Love-Water Rating:
- 5 ATM
- Strap Material:
- silicone
- Lens Material:
- Corning® Gorilla® Glass DX
- Bezel Material:
- fiber-reinforced polymer
- Quickfit® Watch Band Compatible:
- yes (22 mm)
- Physical Size:
- 43.8 x 43.8 x 13.3 mm Fits wrists with a circumference of 126-216 mm
- Memory/History:
- 4 GB
- Time/Date:
- ✔
- GPS Time Sync:
- ✔
- Automatic Daylight Saving Time:
- ✔
- Alarm Clock:
- ✔
- Timer:
- ✔
- Stopwatch:
- ✔
- Sunrise/Sunset Times:
- ✔
- Wrist-Based Heart Rate (Constant, Every Second):
- ✔
- Resting Heart Rate:
- ✔
- Abnormal Heart Rate Alerts:
- yes (high and low)
- Respiration Rate:
- ✔
- Fitness Age:
- yes (in app)
- Body Battery™Energy Monitor:
- ✔
- All-Day Stress:
- ✔
- Relaxation Breathing Timer:
- ✔
- Sleep:
- yes (advanced)
- Hydration:
- yes (in Garmin Connect™and optional Connect IQ™widget)
- Women'S Health:
- yes (in Garmin Connect™and optional Connect IQ™widget)
- Garmin Elevate™Wrist Heart Rate Monitor:
- ✔
- Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation Monitor:
- ✔
- Compass:
- ✔
- Thermometer:
- ✔
- Calendar:
- ✔
- Find My Phone:
- ✔
- Find My Watch:
- ✔
- Pairs With Garmin Connect™Mobile:
- ✔
- Plays And Controls Watch Music:
- ✔