Garmin Forerunner 745

Receive daily running and riding recommendations based on your current training load and status.

Shows you how your workouts affect your endurance, speed, and power with aerobic and anaerobic feedback.

This lets you know when you can work out again, taking into account your training intensity, stress, daily activity, and sleep.

Using your fitness level and training history, this feature helps you reach your racing goal by showing you the impact of training on your predicted finish time.

As you run, your pace, heart rate, and heart rate variability are analyzed for a real-time assessment of your current ability to perform.

You can receive a metric that measures your exercise volume from the last 7 days and compares it to the optimal range for your fitness and recent training history.

This evaluates your recent exercise history and performance indicators to show you if you’re training productively, peaking, or overreaching.

With an optional Garmin power meter, you can be more efficient at riding with cycling dynamics, FTP, and advanced training methods.

Using an optional accessory, the Forerunner 745 can measure running metrics, such as cadence, stride length, ground contact time, balance, and more.

Free adaptive training plans that provide guidance from expert coaches to adapt workouts to fit you and your goals. The workouts sync right to the watch.

Create courses in the Garmin Connect app to give yourself additional places to run. You can plan courses on Strava and Komoot and automatically sync them to the Forerunner.

Many runners and riders have uploaded data covering billions of miles, which allows Garmin Connect to find the best route for you to train on. Choose from roads and trails that are frequently or infrequently traveled.

This tracks your body’s energy levels, so you can learn the best times in the day to be active or to rest.

Women can use the Forerunner 745 to track period cycles and adjust training to maximize your potential. This tracking can also help you plan upcoming races based on your cycle.

The Forerunner 745 has enough built-in memory to store up to 500 songs, but it can also sync your playlists from popular streaming services, such as Deezer, Amazon Music, and Spotify.

If you feel unsafe or are in an emergency, incident detection features will send your currently location to a personalized list of emergency contacts.

Access the Connect IQ Store to download custom watch faces, add data fields, and get new apps and widgets to personalize your Forerunner.

You can upload your activities to the Garmin Connect app, which lets you share your achievements, compete, and connect with others in an online community or on social media.

In Smartwatch Mode, you get up to 1 week of battery life, and up to 6 hours in GPS Mode with Music. Using UltraTrac, you can see if you have enough power to last for your longest upcoming race.

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

Wrist-Based Heart Rate (Constant, Every Second)
Daily Resting Heart Rate
Abnormal Heart Rate Alerts (High and Low)
Wrist-based Heart Rate (Constant, Every Second)
Daily Resting Heart Rate
Abnormal Heart Rate Alerts
Respiration Rate (24×7)
Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation (Spot-Check, Optional All-Day Acclimation, and Sleep)
Fitness Age (In App)
Body Battery Energy Monitor
All-day Stress Tracking
Relaxation Breathing Timer
Sleep
Advanced Sleep Monitoring (Sleep Score and Insights)
Hydration (in Garmin Connect and Optional Connect IQ Widget)

GPS
GLONASS
Galileo
Garmin Elevate Wrist Heart Rate Monitor
Barometric Altimeter
Compass
Gyroscope
Accelerometer
Thermometer
Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation Monitor

Connectivity (Bluetooth, Ant+, and 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 & Controls Watch Music
Music Storage (Up to 500 Songs)
Find My Phone
Find My Watch
Virb Remote
Smartphone Compatibility (iPhone and Android)
Pairs with Garmin Connect Mobile

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

Dual Grid Coordinates

Step Counter
Move Bar (Displays on device after a period of inactivity, and walking for a couple of minutes resets it)
Auto Goal (Learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal)
Calories Burned
Floors Climbed
Distance Traveled
Intensity Minutes
TrueUp
Move IQ

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

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 is 1 to 100 and low scores indicate low stress. This requires an optional accessory)
HR Broadcast (Broadcasts HR data over Ant+ to paired devices)
GPS Speed & Distance
Customizable Data Pages
Customizable 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 that’s 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)
Trendline Popularity Routing
Touch and/or Button Lock
Hot Keys
Auto Scroll
Activity History On Watch
Physio TrueUp

Available Run Profiles (Running, Treadmill Running, Indoor and Outdoor Track Running, Virtual Running, and Trail Running)
GPS-based Distance, Time and Pace
Running Dynamics (with optional compatible accessory)
Vertical Oscillation & Ratio (The degree of “bounce” in your running motion and the cost-benefit ratio with stride length. This requires an optional compatible accessory)
Ground Contact Time & 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)
Stride Length (Real Time) (with optional compatible accessory)
Cadence (Provides real-time number of steps per minute)
Performance Condition (After running for 6-20 minutes, it compares your real-time condition to your average fitness level)
Lactate Threshold (Through analysis of your pace and heart rate, this estimates the point where your muscles start to rapidly fatigue. This requires an optional compatible accessory)
Pacepro Pacing Strategies
Run Workouts
Race Predictor
Foot Pod Capable

Available Outdoor Recreation Profiles (Hiking, Skiing, Snowboarding, Backcountry Skiing, XC Classic, and Skate Skiing, Stand-Up Paddleboarding, Kayaking, and 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 & Moon Information

Alerts (Triggers alarm when you reach goals; including time, distance, heart rate, or calories)
Courses
Available Cycling Profiles (Biking, Indoor Biking, and Mountain Trail Biking)
Bike Lap & Lap Maximum Power (with optional Power Sensor)
Race An Activity
FTP (Functional Threshold Power) (with optional 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 & Cadence Sensor Support

Available Swim Profiles (Pool Swimming, Open Water Swimming, and Swimrun)
Open-water Swim Metrics (Distance, Pace, Stroke Count/Rate, Stroke Distance, Swim Efficiency (SWOLF), and 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 & 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)

Toe-to-Toe Challenges (with optional Connect IQ app)