
After signing into your account through Garmin's app, you can then view and sync your playlists to the Forerunner 245 music. You can download music to the watch from your computer, or from Spotify or Deezer if you have premium subscriptions from those service. Training Status analyzes your activities to see if you're progressing as you should Training Load, which looks at your previous seven days of workouts and anaerobic and aerobic Training Effect, to see the effectiveness of your individual workouts. In fact, it's one of the best running watches and one of the best fitness trackers for running. While not all are necessarily new to Garmin's GPS watches, the Forerunner 245 incorporates a few more metrics catering to runners. Forerunner 245 Music review: Running features

The Forerunner 245 will also show notifications from your smartphone, but unlike a bona fide smartwatch like the Apple Watch Series 6 or the Samsung Galaxy Watch 3, you can't reply, make phone calls or interact with an assistant like Siri. Pressing the Back button will eventually get you to the home screen. However, there are so many menus and submenus - a result of all of the watch's features - that it's not hard to get lost.

Pressing and holding the middle button on the left side lets you adjust settings such as watch faces, widgets and sensors. When diving through all the menus, Garmin keeps things simple. GPS Battery life: 6 hours w/ music, 24 hours w/o music
