The Forerunner 55 series is a super user-friendly sports watch for beginners, fitness enthusiasts, and runners who want a super simple and accessible watch with all the necessary features to track their training.

The Garmin Forerunner 55 is the successor to the popular Forerunner 45, but now with additional features and an updated design.

FEATURES CONTINUING FROM FORERUNNER 45

• GPS, GLONASS, and Galileo satellite connections
• Garmin Coach - professional training plan via Garmin Connect
• Incident Detection - automatic accident detection

• Assistance alarm - possible to send position message
• Running and walking alerts for time, distance, and calories
• VO2-Max estimation
• Garmin Elevate wrist-based heart rate monitor
• Stress tracking - measures the body's stress level
• Body Battery - shows the current energy level of the body
• Body Age - calculates the physical age of the body

NEW FEATURES IN FORERUNNER 55

Activities

• Track Run function for track running, so you get accurate times lap after lap
• Virtual Run, so you can set up the watch with Zwift or similar
• Pool Swim – swimming in a pool
• Pilates
• HiiT – high intensity training
• Breathwork – breathing exercises to reduce your stress level

Running features

• Daily Suggested Workouts Lite – Get suggestions for individually tailored running training from your watch. Based on your fitness level and training load as well as your recovery, the watch recommends specific training sessions for you. Is it time to push hard or should you take an easy run? The watch has the answer. Although it's a "lite" version, the function isn't as intelligent as in the more expensive watches, where you can get more precise suggestions for what you need to train, but the lite version will still provide great value for beginners.
• PacePro (Lite) – With PacePro you can run more strategically, ensuring you use your energy correctly. You enter a route on the watch and indicate your desired average pace or finish time. Then the watch calculates how fast you should run at different times, so you don't exhaust yourself on uphill stretches or miscalculate the route. You can also tell the watch that you want to run a negative split, and then the watch will make sure to tell you how fast you should run. Because it is a lite version ofyou cannot see the route on the watch, which you would be able to on the more expensive Garmin watches, but the pace suggestions are just as precise in the lite version as in the full version.  
• Recovery-time – The watch estimates how long it will take before you are fully recovered after a workout
• Race Predictor – Forerunner 55 estimates how fast you can run 5km, 10km, half marathon, and marathon. The watch bases its estimates on your VO2Max and your training history.
• Finish time – Choose a different distance and a desired finish time or pace and keep track throughout, whether you need to increase the speed or can relax a bit.
• Cadence alerts – Set your desired running cadence on the watch, and if you run with more or fewer steps the watch will alert you.
• Intervals Mode – Load your interval sessions on the watch, so you know how far to run on each interval, how long to rest, and how many repetitions to run.

Health features

• Sleep monitoring – If you wear the watch while you sleep, it will analyze how long you have been in the various sleep stages.
• Intensity minutes – Garmin ensures that all activity is counted in the overall account. So when your pulse is higher than your average resting heart rate, it will start an activity. It could be that you are cycling, or walking towards the supermarket.
• Fitness age – Based on your training level, Garmin tells you how “old” your body is. If you are 36 years old, but in super shape, Garmin might say your body is like a 22-year-old’s.
• All day respiration – How many breaths you take per minute.

In addition, the watch can change watch faces and other visual expressions on the screen through Garmin Connect, so you can personalize your watch.

GARMIN FORERUNNER 55

Garmin Forerunner 55 is the perfect running watch for you who are looking for a simple, beautiful, and functional running and training watch for daily training and competitions from 5 kilometers to marathon distance.

Forerunner 55 has all the basic functions plus much more, making it the perfect watch for versatile training.

Forerunner 55 is a functional and user-friendly running watch, but also has good features for cycling with GPS, as well as various fitness activities.

In addition to being a running watch, the Forerunner 55 series is also a smartwatch that can give you messages, calls, and notifications directly on your wrist,just like you can see your calendar, and weather forecast etc.

SELECTED FEATURES IN THE FORERUNNER 55 SERIES

OUTDOOR RUNNING

• GPS-based Distance, time spent, speed, average pace
• Heart rate, average heart rate, heart rate zones, calories
• Pace, distance, time alarms
• Garmin Coach - program planner

INDOOR RUNNING

• Distance via accelerometer, time spent, speed, average pace
• Heart rate, average heart rate, heart rate zones, calories
• Garmin Coach - program planner

Note that distance may vary from treadmill distance due to running style and arm movements.

OUTDOOR CYCLING

• Distance based on GPS, time spent, laps, speed, average speed
• Heart rate, average heart rate, heart rate zones, calories
• Pace, distance, time alarms

INDOOR CYCLING

• Time spent, laps/intervals
• Heart rate, average heart rate, heart rate zones, calories

Note that distance, speed, and cadence require compatible sensors.

FITNESS

• Cardio, cross trainer, pilates
• Stair climbing and yoga can be added via app

SIZES

GARMIN FORERUNNER 55

• Wrist: 12.9 - 19.7 cm in circumference
• Physical dimensions: 42 x 42 x 11.4 mm.
• Display: 26.3 mm (1.04'') in diameter

Forerunner 55 is unisex and fits almost all wrists.

GARMIN COACH

Garmin Coach has a new feature that allows downloading free training programs from professional trainers directly from Garmin Connect onto the watch.

Garmin Coach has training programs for all levels, based on the goals you wish to achieve.

The Garmin Coach programs guide you through all your running workouts, step by step, so you know exactly what to do.

SAFETY AND TRACKING FEATURES

The Forerunner 55 series features incident detection and assistance alarm, which automatically notifies friends and family if you, for example, crash on a bike, or need to call for help by sharing your location.

Note: LiveTrack requires that you have your smartphone with you, and that it is connected to the watch via bluetooth.

SATELLITE CONNECTIONS

Garmin Forerunner 55 also offers GLONASS and Galileo satellite reception in addition to GPS, which helps with more accurate measurement of speed and trail registration in forest- and

Urban areas.

GPS is by default activated for outdoor sports profiles, while GLONASS and Galileo must be manually activated for each sports activity.

STRESS MONITORING

The Garmin Forerunner 55 indicates how stressed your body is on a scale from 1-100 based on heart rate variability. Your body can be affected by several factors, where stress monitoring helps you monitor the current stress level of your body.

BODY BATTERY

Body Battery is a feature that constantly tells and shows the body's energy level on a scale from 1-100 in real-time.

The Body Battery number is calculated based on stress level, sleep pattern and duration, recovery, and physical activity. Body Battery is a feature that compiles all data from the different measurements, providing an overall score on how refreshed the body actually is throughout the day.

BODY AGE

Body Age estimates your body's age based on VO2-max estimation, which the watch continuously collects data about from physical activity.

PREGNANCY TRACKER

If you are happily pregnant, the watch can also assist you. Among other things, you can track your baby's growth from blueberry to watermelon, as well as keep a journal of your symptoms or read tips about what is important in this stage of your pregnancy.

BATTERY LIFE

The Forerunner 55 series has significantly improved battery life compared to its predecessor (Forerunner 45). Now the battery lasts up to 20 hours of GPS use and weeks of regular smartwatch use, whereas the earlier version lasted 13 hours of regular use.

BATTERY

• Smartwatch mode: Up to 7 days including 2 hours and 30 minutes of running.
• GPS mode: Up to 20 hours

Note that battery life is slightly reduced with GLONASS and Galileo satellite connection turned on.

GARMIN CONNECT

Garmin Connect is Garmin's online universe for both computer and smartphone, where all data is collected in the cloud, and all activities such as sleep, steps, physical activity, and much more are compiled in an understandable way.

Garmin Connect is more than just a gathering place for data. In Garmin Connect, you have the opportunity to challenge friends and family in various disciplines, and competitions.

Additionally, the watch is also compatible with Strava.

WHAT YOU GET

• Garmin Forerunner 55
• Charging cable
• Quick guide