Garmin crafted the Forerunner 55 smartwatch to keep up with your active lifestyle. The Forerunner 55 offers daily suggested exercises, detailed running data, and different sports apps to efficiently accomplish your fitness goals. It combines a silicone band and a hard-wearing display with a sunlight-visible and transflective memory-in-pixel, making it easier to view and track readings on the smartwatch.
Key Features
- Utilise the Garmin Coach feature to achieve your fitness goals. The Forerunner 55 offers free training plans and skilful coaches to assist and guide you in your workouts.
- This Forerunner 55 employs up to 2 weeks of battery life during smartwatch mode. When GPS mode is on, the smartwatch can offer up to 20 hours of power.
- For a more personalised training session, you can use the smartwatch’s Daily Suggestion Workouts feature. It recommends various intense training based on your fitness level, history, and recovery time.
- Its built-in GPS lets you track your location, speed, and how far you’ve been running. You can also use the Finish Time feature to choose a distance for your runs and check your estimated running record.
- Preloaded with various fitness and wellness trackers so that you can count your steps, monitor your calories, sleep, heart rate, stress tracking, hydration tracking, and more1.
- With the updated version of pre-installed Sports apps, this smartwatch allows you to track your training activities, including running, cycling, track run, yoga, and breathwork. You can also check your body’s fitness age, race predictors, and recovery time on this smartwatch.
- Determine how much energy you have at any time as this smartwatch supplies a Body Battery energy monitor. Through this feature, you can conveniently plan your day while optimising your routines.
- Along with its different fitness and wellness tracking characteristics, the Garmin Forerunner 55 enables women users to track their menstrual cycles or pregnancy.
- When the smartwatch’s sensors detect incidents, the Safety and Tracking activates. The watch then sends an automated message to your emergency contacts, including your GPS location, via its companion app (download required) on your smart device2.
- It has a 50-metre (5 ATM) water rating body to accommodate your water sports activities. It can withstand splashes, showers, and is suitable to use for pool swimming.
- Garmin engineered the Forerunner 55 to have a sports-ready structure for every user. It uses a silicone sports band for ultimate comfort, while its large 1.04-inch display incorporates a durable chemically strengthened glass.
- The Garmin Forerunner 55’s band size fits wrists with a circumference of 126-203mm.
1 See Garmin.com/ataccuracy.
2 Requires Garmin Connect™ app and Connect IQ™ app loaded on compatible smartphone paired to Forerunner 55; see Garmin.com/ble.
Garmin Forerunner 55 Smartwatch - Black (42mm Case, GPS, Bluetooth) is rated
4.2 out of
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Rated 5 out of
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TacoTana86 from
Great Watch for Beginners and Experienced Runners
This is a great watch for both beginner runners and experienced runners looking for basic feature and ease of use! It’s functional and has all the features I’d want in a running watch. I’m used to the Fenix series so I was worried this would be a step down from that but I’m learning I don’t really need all those extra features. It’s got the body battery energy monitor that I like and the advanced running features that the Fenix had without having too much extra stuff. The battery life is pretty dang good! Only complaint would be there’s no strength training feature so I can’t track my strength workouts. Other than that it’s a perfect watch!
Date published: 2023-04-24
Rated 5 out of
5
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NewRunner from
If you want to be healthy-Get One!
I bought my Garmin Forerunner 55 on January 11, 2022. I love it! The features are so much better than the Fitbit I was wearing before. As a new runner I needed to monitor my miles and speed. not just steps. This device has so much more. It talks to My Fitness Pal so my calorie count is monitored as well. I am still learning how to use it, such as the mapping features, but it has seemed pretty easy so far (I’m 67, so electronics can be hard for me to figure out sometimes). Using the metrics of my Garmin I have lost 4 pounds so far, and today is only 2 weeks and 3 days since my purchase (I’m close to goal weight, CW: 153; GW: 135-140). Get one!
Date published: 2022-01-28
Rated 5 out of
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ney_ney1978 from
Pretty good so far
I have loved Garmin for years! I've had forerunners since the 15. With each one there has been updates and changes. The 55 is no different. I went with the aqua since it's my favorite color! I feel like it fits better on my arm with the removable bands instead of the slightly curved band of my 45. It does everything I need, tracking steps, heartrate, and everything else. I love the breath work option, and stair step option. I'm working on getting a better fitness age and volmax. It seems on this one though that the buttons have a more springy feel to them, but works good. Customer service at garmin is always accommodating and helpful.
Date published: 2021-10-02
Rated 5 out of
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LRRob from
Works Great!!
I purchased the Forerunner to be paired with my Samsung Galaxy smartphone. The Forerunner is more compatible than any other watch/monitoring device I have yet tried. It syncs with my notifications and makes it really convenient to monitor my calls, texts and emails without having to get to my phone, especially when I am working out. I only wish you could control more from the Garmin Connect app on my phone such as when I am starting a workout. I get great feedback from the workout on the connect app, but can only start the workout from the Forerunner which is sometime hard to do when I am out running in the dark.
Date published: 2024-02-15
Rated 5 out of
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AmyW from
Overall great running watch with upgraded features
I upgraded from the Forerunner 35 to the 55. The GPS engages faster, which I really like. It also appears to be more accurate. I really like the Body Battery function (which wasn't on the 35). It uses HRV (heart rate variability), a more accurate measure to determine when or how long you need to recover from an activity. A few things I'm still getting used to--how many buttons are needed to push to get to various functions. It is more complicated than the 35, but that could be because I'm still learning how to use it. I'm also getting used to notifications not popping up instantly, but doing a step before I can see emails etc. Overall, it is a great watch and good value for the $.
Date published: 2022-01-26
Rated 5 out of
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meh2023 from
Super Watch for Runners
I used to use the Forerunner series, and ended up with another model when someone gifted it to me. I recently went back to the Forerunner 55, and am so glad that I did; the watch is easy to use, has an amazing battery life, the GPS seems extremely accurate, and I love the "breathe" feature (which is not something I expected to love). I had used a touch-screen watch before, and was a bit worried about going back to using buttons, but it has been an easy transition. My previous watch would end up on different screens if I ran in long sleeves in the rain, as the fabric would get warm and the watch would interpret it as a "touch." No such problem here! I am so happy with this purchase.
Date published: 2023-10-17
Rated 1 out of
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Tom 79912 from
Not ready, out of the box.
I wanted a running watch that displays distance run, pace, and time running. What I got was a watch that has a TIMER, as the main part of the display. I wanted to save my run, and there are several choices. It should vibrate when it completes the lap. Very weak. Last week I ran 14 miles. Mile 6 was 2 minutes for .2 mile. I don’t know what happened to the rest of that lap. Apple Watch was the backup and recorder 14 minutes for that mile. That has never happened before with a Garmin watch. I have to download the manual and see if I can get the watch to display the proper data. I shouldn’t need to do it. If I was running on a track I might use a timer but not for running on the road.
Date published: 2023-11-24
Rated 5 out of
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XCGram from
Great tool for tracking health!
Have been using Forerunner 55 for a little over a month. I track my water aerobics workout and my swimming. I am a senior woman that wanted to track my heart rate, sleep patterns and general health. I am pleased with the ease of using the watch, and the ease of using Garmin Connect. I have just started looking into the user connections. There is so much to learn but so much basic information that is easy to access. The great side light is everything I have used is included in the purchase price. No extra cost for Garmin Connect. There is a learning curve but it is not as steep as I initially thought. For me and my needs it is a winner! No problems with using it in pool water daily.
Date published: 2024-04-16
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