Garmin Forerunner® 945 LTE Running Watch

Up-at-dawn runners and conditioned-for-pain triathletes, Garmin wants you to have peace of mind while you run, ride or swim. So leave your phone at home. The Garmin Forerunner® 945 LTE running watch has got your back.

 

• Leave your phone at home — on purpose. LTE connectivity¹ has you covered.
• Put the perfect soundtrack right on your wrist.
• Packed with powerful performance metrics to help you train smarter.
• Easily pay for purchases² using Garmin Pay^™ with just a tap of your wrist.
• Explore more routes with guidance from full-color onboard maps.
• Get up to 7 hours of battery life in GPS mode with music and LTE LiveTrack.

 

SPECS

• Lens Material – Corning® Gorilla® Glass DX
• Bezel Material – fiber-reinforced polymer
• QuickFit Watchband Compatible – yes (22 mm compatible)
• Strap Material – Silicone
• Physical Size – 44.4 x 44.4 x 13.9 mm

  Fits wrists with a circumference of 128-218 mm

• Color Display – Yes
• Display Size – 1.2″ (30.4 mm) diameter
• Display Resolution – 240 x 240 pixels
• Display Type – sunlight-visible, transflective memory-in-pixel (MIP)
• Battery Life – Smartwatch Mode: Up to 2 weeks
  GPS mode with music: Up to 12 hours
  GPS mode with LTE LiveTrack: Up to 10 hours
  GPS mode with music and LTE LiveTrack: Up to 7 hours
  GPS mode without music: Up to 35 hours
• Water Rating – 5 ATM
• Memory/History – 200 hours of activity data

Clock Features

• Time/Date – Yes
• GPS Time Sync – Yes
• Automatic Daylight Savings Time – Yes
• Alarm Clock – Yes
• Timer – Yes
• Stopwatch – Yes
• Sunrise/Sunset Times – Yes

Health Monitoring

• Wrist-based heart rate monitoring (constant/every second) – Yes
• Daily Resting Heart Rate – Yes
• Abnormal Heart Rate Alerts – Yes (high and low)
• Respiration Rate (24×7) – Yes
• Pulse Ox Blood Saturation Rate – yes (spot-check, and optional all-day acclimation and in sleep)
• Fitness Age – Yes (in app)
• Body Battery Energy Monitor – Yes
• All Day Stress – Yes
• Relaxation Reminders – Yes
• Relaxation Breathing Timers – Yes
• Sleep – Yes (Advanced )
• Sleep Score and Insights – Yes
• Hydration – yes (in Garmin Connect™ and optional Connect IQ™ widget)
• Women’s Health – yes (in Garmin Connect™ and optional Connect IQ™ widget)

Sensors

• GPS – Yes
• Glonass – Yes
• Galileo – Yes
• b- Yes
• Barometric Altimeter – Yes
• Compass – Yes
• Gyroscope – Yes
• Accelerometer – Yes
• Thermometer – Yes
• Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation Monitor – Yes

Daily Smart Features

• Connectivity – Bluetooth®, ANT+®, Wi-Fi®, LTE (with subscription)
• Smart Notifications – Yes
• TEXT RESPONSE/REJECT PHONE CALL WITH TEXT (ANDROID™ ONLY) – Yes
• Calender – 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™
• Pairs with Garmin Connect™ Mobile – Yes
• Garmin Pay™ – Yes

Safety and Tracking Features

• Livetrack – Yes
• Spectator Messaging – yes (with LTE subscription)
• Group Livetrack – Yes
• Live Event Sharing – Yes
• Incident Detection During Select Activities – Yes
• Assistance – Yes

Tactical Features

• Dual Grip 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
• Yes – AUTO GOAL (LEARNS YOUR ACTIVITY LEVEL AND ASSIGNS A DAILY STEP GOAL)
• Calories Burned – Yes
• Floors Climbed – Yes
• Distance Traveled – Yes
• Intensity Minutes – Yes
• TRUEUP™ – Yes
• Move IQ™ – Yes
• GARMIN CONNECT™ CHALLENGES APP – yes (optional Connect IQ app)

GYM & Fitness Equipment 

• Available Gym Activity Profiles – Strength, Cardio and Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, Floor Climbing, Indoor Rowing, Breathwork, Pilates and Yoga
• Cardio Workouts – Yes
• Strength Workouts – Yes
• Yoga Workouts – Yes
• Pilates Workouts – Yes
• Automatic Rep Counting – Yes

Training, Planning, and Analysis Features

• 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)
• GPS Speed and Distance – Yes
• Customizable Data Pages – Yes
• Customizable Activity Profiles – Yes
• AUTO PAUSE® – Yes
• Interval Training – Yes
• IMPROVED INTERVAL (INCLUDES OPEN REPEATS, INTERVALS DATA PAGE, REST SCREEN AND AUTO DETECTION) – Yes
• Advanced Workouts – Yes
• Downloadable Training Plans – Yes
• AutoLap® – Yes
• Manual Lap – Yes
• Configurable Lap Alerts – Yes
• Heat and Altitude Acclimation – Yes
• VO2 Max Run – 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
• Improved Recovery Time – Yes
• Daily Suggested Workouts – Yes
• Custom Alerts – Yes
• Audio Prompts – Yes
• Finish Time – Yes
• Virtual Partner – Yes
• Race an 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

 

Running Features

AVAILABLE RUN PROFILES	Running, Indoor and Outdoor Track Running, Treadmill Running, Trail Running, Virtual Running, Ultra Running
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)
PACEPRO™ PACING STRATEGIES	yes
RUN WORKOUTS	yes
RACE PREDICTOR	yes
FOOT POD CAPABLE	yes

Golfing Features
PRELOADED WITH 42,000 COURSES WORLDWIDE	yes
YARDAGE TO F/M/B (DISTANCE TO FRONT, MIDDLE AND BACK OF GREEN)	yes
YARDAGE TO LAYUPS/DOGLEGS	yes
MEASURES SHOT DISTANCE (CALCULATES EXACT YARDAGE FOR SHOTS FROM ANYWHERE ON COURSE)	Automatic
DIGITAL SCORECARD	yes
STAT TRACKING (STROKES, PUTTS PER ROUND, GREENS AND FAIRWAYS HIT)	yes
GARMIN AUTOSHOT™	yes
AUTO COURSEVIEW UPDATES	yes
GREEN VIEW WITH MANUAL PIN POSITION	yes
HAZARDS AND COURSE TARGETS	yes
PINPOINTER	yes
HANDICAP SCORING	yes
TRUSWING™ COMPATIBLE	yes
ROUND TIMER/ODOMETER	yes

Outdoor Recreation
AVAILABLE OUTDOOR RECREATION PROFILES	Hiking, Climbing, Skiing, Snowboarding, XC Skiing, Stand Up Paddleboarding, Rowing, Kayaking
POINT-TO-POINT NAVIGATION	yes
BREAD CRUMB TRAIL IN REAL TIME	yes
BACK TO START	yes
TRACBACK®	yes
ULTRATRAC MODE	yes
AROUND ME MODE	yes
ELEVATION PROFILE	yes
DISTANCE TO DESTINATION	yes
BAROMETRIC TREND INDICATOR WITH STORM ALERT	yes
CLIMBPRO™ ASCENT PLANNER	yes
TRAIL RUN AUTO CLIMB	yes
VERTICAL SPEED	yes
TOTAL ASCENT/DESCENT	yes
FUTURE ELEVATION PLOT	yes
PRELOADED TOPOGRAPHICAL MAPS	yes
PRELOADED ROAD AND TRAIL MAPS	yes
DOWNLOADABLE CARTOGRAPHY SUPPORT	yes
COMPATIBLE WITH BASECAMP™	yes
GPS COORDINATES	yes
AREA CALCULATION	yes (via Connect IQ™)
HUNT/FISH CALENDAR	yes (via Connect IQ™)
PROJECTED WAYPOINT	yes
SUN AND MOON INFORMATION	yes (via Connect IQ™)
XERO™ LOCATIONS	yes

Cycling Features
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
MTB GRIT & FLOW	yes
AVAILABLE CYCLING PROFILES	Biking, Indoor Biking, Mountain Trail Biking, eBiking, eMountain Trail 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 (W/SENSOR)	yes

Swimming Features
AVAILABLE SWIM PROFILES	Pool Swimming, Open Water Swimming, Swim running
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
AUTO REST (POOL SWIM ONLY)	yes
TIME AND DISTANCE ALERTS	yes
PACING ALERTS (POOL SWIM ONLY)	yes
COUNTDOWN START (POOL SWIM ONLY)	yes
POOL SWIM WORKOUTS	yes
CRITICAL SWIM SPEEDyes	yes
UNDERWATER WRIST-BASED HEART RATE	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™)

Kid Activity Tracking Features
TOE-TO-TOE™ CHALLENGES APP	yes (optional Connect IQ app)