Description
This easy-to-use GPS smartwatch is designed for people of all skill levels to track their stats and chase their fitness goals.
See yourself as a runner. Forerunner® 55 is the easy-to-use GPS running smartwatch that encourages running and healthy lifestyles. With the simple press of a button, you can start your run or walk and track time, distance, speed, pace and heart rate1 right from your wrist.
Lightweight and comfortable
This smartwatch is the perfect fit for running and everyday life. Whether you're running a 5K or working out another way, experience the ultimate in comfort with this sporty silicone band.
Heart rate monitoring
Get heart rate data along with alerts if your heart rate stays high while you're at rest. Gauge how hard your heart is working during activities.
Adaptive training plans
These adaptive training plans feature guidance from expert coaches and free training plans that adapt to you and your goals.
Daily run recommendations
For personalised training guidance, get daily run recommendations of varying intensities based on your training history, fitness level, and recovery time.
Race day strategy
GPS-based pace guidance helps you plan your race day strategy for a selected course or distance in the Garmin Connect app, tailoring your efforts to what's ahead.
Recovery Time Feature
After each workout, the built-in recovery time feature will let you know how long to rest before another big effort, helping you give your body time to recover.
Long Battery Life
Run to your heart's content with up to 2 weeks of battery life in smartwatch mode and up to 20 hours in GPS mode.
Disclaimers
¹See Garmin.com/ataccuracy
²Requires Garmin Connect™ app and Connect IQ™ app loaded on your compatible smartphone paired to Forerunner 55; see Garmin.com/ble
Key features
- The Forerunner 55 Smartwatch is part of our tech winter sale.
- Easy-to-use GPS running smartwatch monitors heart rate¹ at the wrist and uses GPS to track how far, how fast and where you’ve run.
- With the simple press of a button, a user can start their run or walk and track their time, distance, speed and more.
- All-day activity tracking¹ counts steps, calories, sleep and more.
- Take the guesswork out of your runs with suggested workouts based on your training history, fitness level and recovery time.
- Garmin Coach training plans offer on-screen guidance from expert coaches and free 5K, 10K or half-marathon training plans that adapt based on a runner’s goals.
- Plan your race day strategy with the PacePro™ feature, which offers GPS-based pace guidance for a selected course or distance.
- Run your best with helpful training tools, including race time predictions and finish time estimates.
- Track all the ways you move with built-in activity profiles for running, cycling, track run, virtual run, pool swim, yoga, breathwork and more.
- Tune in to your body with advanced wellness features, such as intensity minutes, fitness age, Body Battery™ energy monitoring, stress tracking and more.
- Automatically upload activities to the Garmin Connect™ app, and download custom. watch faces, data fields and apps from the Connect IQ™ Store.²
- Up to 2 weeks of battery life in smartwatch mode, up to 20 hours in GPS mode
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Designed for form and function
Lightweight and comfortable, this smartwatch is the perfect fit for running and for everyday life. -
Sport-ready materials
Whether you're running a 5K or working out another way, experience the ultimate in comfort with this sporty silicone band. -
Built-in GPS
Track where you run, and get accurate stats, including distance, pace and intervals. -
Wrist-based heart rate
Get heart rate data along with alerts if your heart rate stays high while you're at rest. Even gauge how hard your heart is working during activities. -
Garmin coach
These adaptive training plans feature guidance from expert coaches and free training plans that adapt to you and your goals. -
Daily suggested workouts
For personalized training guidance, get daily run recommendations of varying intensities based on your training history, fitness level and recovery time. -
PacePro technology
To help you plan your race day strategy, this feature offers GPS-based pace guidance for a selected course or distance in the Garmin Connect app. So you can tailor your efforts to what's ahead. -
Finish time
Want some guidance to help you meet your goal? Select a distance for your run, and you'll be able to see a data screen that shows your estimated finish time. -
Track run
When you're ready to hit the track for some speedwork, use the built-in track run activity to record accurate lap distances and see your distances in meters. -
Cadence alerts
Want to improve your running form? Use the cadence alerts to know when you've gone outside your target cadence range. -
Recovery advisor
Giving your body time to recover between training sessions is crucial. After each workout, the built-in recovery time feature will let you know how long to rest before another big effort. -
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. -
Built-in sports apps
Switch up your workout routine with activity profiles for track or virtual running, pool swimming, Pilates, HIIT and even breathwork. -
Battery life
Run to your heart's content with up to 2 weeks of battery life in smartwatch mode and up to 20 hours in GPS mode. -
Fitness tracking
While you're out and about, Forerunner 55 tracks steps, intensity minutes and more. -
Stress tracking
Find out if you're having a calm, balanced or stressful day. Relax reminders will even prompt you to do a short breathing activity. -
Body battery energy monitoring
Track your body's energy levels so you can find the best times for activity and rest. -
Intensity minutes
See when during the day you earned intensity minutes from moderate and vigorous physical activity. -
Fitness age
This feature uses chronological age, resting heart rate and other factors to estimate if your body is younger or older than you are. Age is just a number, after all. -
Respiration tracking
See how you're breathing throughout the day, during sleep and during breathwork activities. -
Smart notifications
Receive emails, texts and alerts right on your smartwatch 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 can send a message with your location to emergency contacts. -
Music controls
Easily control the music playing on your paired smartphone, so you can skip songs without missing a beat.
Specifications
Summary
- Product Description
- Garmin Forerunner 55 - black - sport watch with band - black
- Product Type
- Sport watch
- Tracking Data
- Distance, time, speed, calories burned, sleep activity, heart rate, stress level
- Connectivity
- Bluetooth, ANT+
- Navigation
- GPS receiver
- Display
- Memory-in-Pixel LCD - 1.04" - 208 x 208 pixels - chemically strengthened glass
- Case
- Round
- Band
- Black - band - silicone - changeable
- Input
- Touch buttons
- Notifications
- Calendar, Email, social apps
- Features
- Music remote handling, idle alert, Garmin Connect compatible, Body Battery
- Supported Host Device OS
- iOS, Android
- Battery
- Rechargeable
- Battery Run Time
- Up to 14 day(s)
- Dimensions (WxDxH)
- 42 mm x 11.6 mm x 42 mm
- Weight
- 37 g
- Manufacturer Warranty
- 1-year warranty
Detailed Specification
General
- Product Type
- Sport watch
- Supported Host Device OS
- iOS, Android
- Notifications
- Calendar, Email, social apps
- Navigation
- GPS receiver
- Tracking Data
- Distance, time, speed, calories burned, sleep activity, heart rate, stress level
- Wearing Style
- Watch style
- Clock Display
- Yes
- Set Goals
- Yes
- Sensors
- Accelerometer, optical heart sensor
- Features
- Music remote handling, idle alert, Garmin Connect compatible, Body Battery
Display
- Type
- Memory-in-Pixel LCD - colour - transflective
- Resolution
- 208 x 208 pixels
- Diagonal Size
- 1.04"
- Protection
- Chemically strengthened glass
Connectivity
- Wireless Interface
- Bluetooth, ANT+
Input Device
- Type
- Touch buttons
Battery
- Rechargeable Battery
- Yes
- Run Time (Up To)
- 14 day(s)
- Run Time Details
- GPS mode - up to 20 hour(s) , Smartwatch mode - up to 14 days
Smart Watch Case
- Case Shape
- Round
- Case Details
- Black
Band
- Name
- Band
- Changeable
- Yes
- Clasp Type
- Buckle
- Material
- Silicone
- Colour
- Black
Dimensions & Weight
- Width
- 42 mm
- Depth
- 11.6 mm
- Height
- 42 mm
- Weight
- 37 g
Miscellaneous
- Vibrating Alert
- Yes
- Protection
- Waterproof
- Included Accessories
- Charging/data cable
- Warranty
- 1-year warranty
Environmental Parameters
- Max Depth of Water Resistance
- 50 m
Dimensions & Weight (Shipping)
- Shipping Width
- 6.8 cm
- Shipping Depth
- 6.7 cm
- Shipping Height
- 13.7 cm
- Shipping Weight
- 170 g