Physiological readings and individualized workouts help you perfect your training and get the most out of your competition - from 10K to triathlon. With Garmin Music, smart features and up to 14 days of battery life
Scope of delivery
- Forerunner 945 GPS watch
- 1 extra set bands (black)
- HRM-Pro™ monitor
- HRM-Swim™ monitor
- Charging/Data Cable
- Documentation
Highlights of the Forerunner® 945 LTE
- Leave your phone at home — on purpose. LTE connectivity has you covered
- Put the perfect soundtrack right on your wrist
- Packed with powerful performance metrics to help you train smarter
- Easily pay for purchases 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
Features
HIGH-PERFORMANCE RUNNING WATCH DESIGNCarry more on your wrist without the extra bulk or added weight. Fly past the competition with a lightweight, sporty smartwatch.
READY FOR ANYTHING
From open water swims to long training rides, this watch is up to the challenge. Its high-performance silicone band and durable Corning® Gorilla® Glass DX lens can handle just about anything.
LTE CONNECTIVITY
This LTE-connected smartwatch links you in fun ways to your family and friends and also provides peace of mind while you’re out doing your sport. Choose the plan that’s right for you.
ASSISTANCE
If you feel unsafe or if your watch senses that an incident occurred, it can send a message to your emergency contacts with your location information.
ASSISTANCE PLUS
Take safety seriously. This watch can automatically send your name and location to the Garmin IERCC, a 24/7 staffed professional emergency response coordination center that can contact and communicate with local emergency services.
LIVETRACK
Use LiveTrack to let friends and family follow your real-time location and even view your entire preplanned course. Rest assured that your loved ones know exactly where you’re running or riding.
SPECTATOR MESSAGING
Get midrace motivation with audio and text messages from your family and friends.
LIVE EVENT SHARING
Automatically send race updates to family and friends, without lifting a finger. While you’re powering through, they can stay up to date with your pace, miles completed and more.
DAILY SUGGESTED WORKOUTS
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.
GARMIN COACH
These free adaptive training plans feature guidance from expert coaches that adapt to you and your goals. Workouts sync right to your watch.
SYNC TRAINING PLANS
Get your indoor and outdoor training plans from the Garmin Connect™ app, or sync seamlessly to your Forerunner from other platforms including TrainingPeaks® and TrainerRoad.
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, the built-in recovery time advisor lets you know how long to rest before another big effort. It even accounts for all-day stress, sleep6 and daily activities outside of workouts.
BUILT-IN SPORTS APPS
Switch up your workouts with activity profiles for cycling, triathlon, pool and open-water swimming, track running and more. For races and brick workouts, switch sports with a single button press.
TRACK RUN
Use this built-in activity profile to measure your running distance more accurately around a 400-meter track.
IMPROVED INTERVALS
A new intervals data page and automatic classification keeps track of your fast and slow time, then separates them for you. Open repeats mode offers intervals structure with lap button control.
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.
PACE PRO
The PacePro feature helps keep you on pace with grade-adjusted guidance as you run a course.
RACE PREDICTOR
This specialized 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, analyze pace, heart rate and heart rate variability for a real-time assessment of your current ability to perform.
TRAINING LOAD FOCUS
This stat shows how your training load breaks down by categories of intensity and if that breakdown is balanced, focused or lacking in one or more areas.
TRAINING STATUS
This metric evaluates your recent exercise history and performance indicators to let you know if you’re training productively, peaking or overreaching.
WRIST-BASED HEART RATE
Our latest generation sensor provides heart rate data and alerts if your heart rate stays high while you’re at rest. Gauge how hard your heart is working during activities, even underwater.
RUNNING DYNAMICS
When used with a compatible accessory, Forerunner 945 LTE measures crucial running metrics such as cadence, stride length, ground contact time and balance and more.
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.
EXTENDED BATTERY LIFE
Get up to 2 weeks of battery life in smartwatch mode and up to 7 hours in GPS mode with music and LTE LiveTrack.
FULL-COLOR MAPPING
Whether you’re running the city streets or riding densely covered trails, Forerunner 945 LTE provides built-in mapping to help keep you on track.
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.
CLIMBPRO FEATURE
Use ClimbPro ascent planner on downloaded courses to see real-time information on your current and upcoming climbs, including gradient, distance and elevation gain.
TURN-BY-TURN NAVIGATION
Follow a route or course with help from turn-by-turn directions, which let you know ahead of time when the next turn is coming.
ROUND-TRIP ROUTING
Enter a distance you want to run or ride and get suggested courses that will bring you back to your starting point. Trendline™ popularity routing helps you find the best local paths.
MULTIPLE SATELLITE SYSTEMS
Access multiple global navigation satellite systems (GPS, GLONASS and Galileo) to track in more challenging environments than GPS alone.
PULSE OX SENSOR
This wrist-based sensor monitors blood oxygen saturation levels to support advanced sleep monitoring and altitude acclimation.
BODY BATTERY™ ENERGY MONITORING
Track your body’s energy levels so you can find the best times for activity and rest.
WOMEN’S HEALTH TRACKING
Use the Garmin Connect app to track your menstrual cycle or pregnancy. Log symptoms, get exercise and nutrition education, and more. Even get details on your wrist with the Menstrual Cycle Tracking widget and Pregnancy Tracking app.
MUSIC ON YOUR WRIST
Download your playlists from select music streaming services — such as Deezer, Amazon Music and Spotify — right to your watch. Forerunner 945 LTE can store up to 1,000 songs.
GARMIN PAY PAYMENT SOLUTION
Breeze through checkout lines and select transit systems with the Garmin Pay contactless payment solution through participating providers.
SMART NOTIFICATIONS
Receive emails, texts and alerts right on your watch, when paired with a compatible smartphone.
SMART TRAINER CONTROL
Control your Tacx® Smart trainer via ANT+® technology for course simulation, automatic resistance changes and workout prompts when you use courses or workouts from your watch.
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 app to interact with a thriving online community where people on the go can connect and compete — and even share their triumphs via social media.
Color
- neon yellow
Weight
- 49 g (Manufacturer information)
Garmin: Whatever the Reason, Run with Forerunner 945 LTE
HRM-Pro™ monitor
Whether you are swimming, team training or running, the HRM-Pro™ from Garmin records your heart rate data and running efficiency values precisely. Thanks to its compatibility with Bluetooth and ANT+, you can transfer your data in real time to your Smartwatch, training devices or online platforms such as Tacx, Zwift, etc. - regardless of your preferred training method.Even during activities without a direct connection to your Smartwatch, the HRM-PRO™ Chest Strap saves your data and transmits it directly to your watch. Thanks to Physio TrueUp your activity data, such as steps, intensity minutes and calories burned are stored in your Garmin Connect profile even without a watch.Highlights - Garmin HRM-Pro™
PERFORMANCE DATAThe HRM-Pro™ reliably and accurately records your heart rate data as well as running efficiency values such as cadence, vertical ratio, ground contact time and more.
UNDER WATER
The heart rate data is also recorded when swimming.
ANT+ AND BLUETOOTH
Thanks to ANT+ and Bluetooth, the data can be transmitted directly to the Smartwatch, Smartphone, training equipment or online platforms such as Zwift.
SAVE AND TRANSMIT
The HRM-Pro™ can store your data during your activity and transfer it directly to your Smartwatch. So you can easily leave your watch in your pocket during your team training and still measure your performance.
PHYSIO TRUEUP
The Premium Chest Strap detects your activity, stores your data and synchronizes your activity with your Garmin Connect account thanks to Physio TrueUp. View your steps, distance covered, intensity minutes and calories burned after your activity.
BATTERY LIFE
The button cell battery in the HRM-Pro™ lasts up to 1 year. You can easily replace the battery and restart your training immediately.
Product Features
- Measurements: 60.0 – 142.0 x 3.0 x 1.2 cm
- Length: 60.0 to 106.0 cm
- Transmission: ANT+ / Bluetooth
- Battery: CR2032
- Battery Life: 12 months (Tri training 1 hour per day)
- Water rating: 5 ATM
- Operating temperature: 14°F-122°F (-10°C-50°C)
- Range: 3m
- ANT+® heart rate
- BLE heart rate
- Supports heart rate variability and advanced heart rate features
- ANT+ running dynamics
- Stand-alone activity monitoring (steps, all-day heart rate, calories and intensity minutes)
- Support Physio TrueUp
- Stores and forwards heart rate
- Swim interval heart rate statistics
HRM-Swim™ monitor
Take your training to the next level by pairing HRM-Swim with your Garmin Watch. Specifically designed for use in the pool, the sleek, non-slip strap stays in place, even during wall push-offs. Once you're out of the water, including when the torso is lifted out of the water mid-session, real-time heart rate, interval summaries and stored heart rate are transmitted to the Watch.Use
- Pool swims
- Open water swims
- Triathlon competition (pool swim), triathlon kit not required
- Runs or bike rides as part of a multi-sport activity that includes a pool swim
Product features
Physical Specifications
- Unit dimensions (LxWxD): 58.0 - 145.0 x 3.8 x 1.2 cm
- Weight: 72 g
- Module size: 29.4 x 51.4 x 8.5 mm
- Module weight: 51 g
- ize adjustment: Bi-fold
- Sizing range: 58.0 - 145.0 cm
- Battery: CR2032
- Battery life: 18 months (swimming 3 hours per week)
- Water rating: 5 ATM
Additional
- ANT+® heart rate: yes
- Supports heart rate variability and advanced heart rate features: yes
- 2.4 GHz ANT wireless communication protocol: yes
- Stores and forwards heart rate: yes
- Swim interval heart rate statistics: yes
- Non-slip design for pool swimming: yes
- Pool chemical resistent: yes
Product features
General |
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Lens Material |
Corning® Gorilla® Glass DX |
Bezel Material |
fiber-reinforced polymer |
QuickFit™ watch band 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 | ✔ |
Display size | 1.2" (30.4 mm) diameter |
Display resolution | 240 x 240 pixels |
Display type | sunlight-visible, transflective memory-in-pixel (MIP) |
Weight |
49 g |
Battery life |
Smartwatch Mode: Up to 2 weeks |
Water rating | 5 ATM |
Memory/History | 200 hours of activity data |
Clock Features |
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Time/date | ✔ |
GPS Time Sync | ✔ |
Automatic daylight saving time | ✔ |
Alarm clock | ✔ |
Timer | ✔ |
Stopwatch | ✔ |
Sunrise/sunset times | ✔ |
Health Monitoring |
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Wrist-based Heart Rate (constant, every second) | ✔ |
Daily Resting Heart Rate | ✔ |
Abnormal Heart Rate Alerts | yes (high and low) |
Respiration rate (24x7) | ✔ |
Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation | yes (spot-check, and optional all-day acclimation and in sleep) |
Fitness Age | yes (in app) |
Body Battery™ Energy Monitor | ✔ |
All-day Stress | ✔ |
Relaxation reminders | ✔ |
Relaxation breathing timer | ✔ |
Sleep | yes (Advanced) |
Sleep score and insights | ✔ |
Hydration | yes (in Garmin Connect™ and optional Connect IQ™ widget) |
Woman's Health | yes (in Garmin Connect™ and optional Connect IQ™ widget) |
Sensors |
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GPS | ✔ |
GLONASS | ✔ |
Galileo | ✔ |
Garmin Elevate™ wrist heart rate monitor | ✔ |
Barometric altimeter | ✔ |
Compass | ✔ |
Gyroscope | ✔ |
Accelerometer | ✔ |
Thermometer | ✔ |
Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation Monitor | ✔ |
Daily Smart Features |
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Connectivity | Bluetooth®, ANT+®, Wi-Fi®, LTE (with subscription) |
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 1000 songs |
Find My Phone | ✔ |
Find My Watch | ✔ |
VIRB® Remote | ✔ |
Smartphone compatibility | iPhone®, Android™ |
Pairs with Garmin Connect™ Mobile | ✔ |
Garmin Pay™ | ✔ |
Safety and Tracking Features |
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LiveTrack | ✔ |
Spectator messaging | yes (with LTE subscription) |
Group LiveTrack | ✔ |
Live Event Sharing | ✔ |
Incident Detection during select activities | ✔ |
Assistance | ✔ |
Assistance Plus | yes (with LTE subscription; coverage details) |
Tactical Features |
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Dual grid coordinates | ✔ |
Activity Tracking Features |
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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 & Fitness Equipment |
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Available gym activity profiles | Strength, Cardio and Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, Floor Climbing, Indoor Rowing, Breathwork, Pilates and Yoga |
Cardio workouts | ✔ |
Strength workouts | ✔ |
Yoga workouts | ✔ |
Pilates workouts | ✔ |
Automatic rep counting | ✔ |
Training, Planning and Analysis Features |
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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) | yes (with compatible accessory) |
HR Broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+™ to paired devices) | ✔ |
Respiration rate (during exercise) | yes (with compatible accessory) |
GPS speed and distance | ✔ |
Customizable data pages | ✔ |
Customizable activity profiles | ✔ |
Auto Pause® | ✔ |
Interval training | ✔ |
Improved interval (includes open repeats, intervals data page, rest screen and auto detection) | ✔ |
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) | ✔ |
Improved recovery time | ✔ |
Daily suggested workouts | ✔ |
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 | ✔ |
Running Features |
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Available run profiles |
Running, Indoor and Outdoor Track Running, Treadmill Running, Trail Running, Virtual Running, Ultra Running |
GPS-based distance, time and pace | ✔ |
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) | ✔ |
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) | yes (with compatible accessory) |
PacePro™ Pacing Strategies | ✔ |
Run workouts | ✔ |
Race predictor | ✔ |
Foot pod capable | ✔ |
Golfing Features |
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Preloaded with 42,000 courses worldwide | ✔ |
Yardage to F/M/B (distance to front, middle and back of green) | ✔ |
Yardage to layups/doglegs | ✔ |
Measures shot distance (calculates exact yardage for shots from anywhere on course) | Automatic |
Digital scorecard | ✔ |
Stat tracking (strokes, putts per round, greens and fairways hit) | ✔ |
Garmin AutoShot™ | ✔ |
Auto CourseView updates | ✔ |
Green View with manual pin position | ✔ |
Hazards and course targets | ✔ |
PinPointer | ✔ |
Handicap scoring | ✔ |
TruSwing™ compatible | ✔ |
Round timer/odometer | ✔ |
Outdoor Recreation |
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Available outdoor recreation profiles |
Hiking, Climbing, Skiing, Snowboarding, XC Skiing, Stand Up Paddleboarding, Rowing, Kayaking |
Point-to-point navigation | ✔ |
Bread crumb trail in real time | ✔ |
Back to start | ✔ |
TracBack® | ✔ |
UltraTrac mode | ✔ |
Around Me 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 | ✔ |
Preloaded topographical maps | ✔ |
Preloaded road and trail maps | ✔ |
Downloadable cartography support | ✔ |
Compatible with BaseCamp™ | ✔ |
GPS coordinates | ✔ |
Area calculation | yes (via Connect IQ™) |
Hunt/fish calendar | yes (via Connect IQ™) |
Projected waypoint | ✔ |
Sun and moon information | yes (via Connect IQ™) |
XERO™ Locations | ✔ |
Cycling Features |
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Alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goals including time, distance, heart rate or calories) | ✔ |
Courses | ✔ |
Cycle Map (routable cycling-specific street map) | ✔ |
MTB Grit & Flow | ✔ |
Available cycling profiles |
Biking, Indoor Biking, Mountain Trail Biking, eBiking, eMountain Trail Biking |
Bike lap and lap maximum power (with power sensor) | ✔ |
Race an activity | ✔ |
FTP (Functional Threshold Power) | yes (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 Features |
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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) | ✔ |
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) | yes (with HRM-Tri™ and HRM-Swim™) |
Kid Activity Tracking Features |
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Toe-to-Toe™ Challenges app | yes (optional Connect IQ app) |
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