SEE YOURSELF AS A RUNNER
This easy-to-use GPS smartwatch is designed for people of all skill levels to track their stats and chase their fitness goals.

Track your time, distance pace and speed during your run or walk with built-in GPS.
Monitor your overall health and wellness with wrist-based heart rate1 and more.
Take guesswork out of training. This smartwatch suggests runs tailored to you.
High-end running features help you meet your potential. Minus the high-end price tag.
Track more than just running with an array of built-in activity profiles.
Get up to 2 weeks of battery life. Because less charging is always a good thing.

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 sweating it out during HIIT sessions, 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 data1 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. Workouts sync right to your watch from the Garmin Connect™ app2.

DAILY SUGGESTED WORKOUTS
For personalised 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 metres.

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 specialised 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 more1.

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.

WOMEN’S HEALTH TRACKING
Use the Garmin Connect app2 to track your menstrual cycle or pregnancy. Log symptoms, get exercise and nutrition education, and more.

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 features3 can send a message with your location to emergency contacts.

CONNECT IQ™ STORE
Download custom watch faces, add data fields, and get apps from the Connect IQ Store2.

MUSIC CONTROLS
Easily control the music playing on your paired smartphone, so you can skip songs without missing a beat.

SYNCS 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.

¹Activity tracking accuracy.

²Requires app on your compatible smartphone.

³When paired with your compatible smartphone. For safety and tracking features requirements and limitations, see Garmin.com/safety.

General

LENS MATERIAL Chemically strengthened glass
QUICK RELEASE BANDS yes (20 mm, Industry standard)
STRAP MATERIAL Silicone
PHYSICAL SIZE 42 x 42 x 11.6 mm
Fits wrists with a circumference of 126-203 mm
COLOR DISPLAY
DISPLAY SIZE 1.04″ (26.3 mm) diameter
DISPLAY RESOLUTION 208 x 208 pixels
DISPLAY TYPE Sunlight-visible, transflective memory-in-pixel (MIP)
WEIGHT 37 g
BATTERY LIFE Smartwatch mode: Up to 2 weeks GPS mode: Up to 20 hours See details
WATER RATING 5 ATM
MEMORY/HISTORY 200 hours of activity data

Clock Features

TIME/DATE
GPS TIME SYNC
AUTOMATIC DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME
ALARM CLOCK
TIMER
STOPWATCH
SUNRISE/SUNSET TIMES

Health Monitoring

WRIST-BASED HEART RATE (CONSTANT, EVERY SECOND)
DAILY RESTING HEART RATE
ABNORMAL HEART RATE ALERTS yes (high and low)
RESPIRATION RATE (24X7)
FITNESS AGE
BODY BATTERY™ ENERGY MONITOR
ALL-DAY STRESS
RELAXATION REMINDERS
RELAXATION BREATHING TIMER
SLEEP Yes (Advanced)
HYDRATION Yes (in Garmin Connect™ and optional Connect IQ™ widget)
WOMAN'S HEALTH

Sensors

GPS
GLONASS
GALILEO
GARMIN ELEVATE™ WRIST HEART RATE MONITOR
ACCELEROMETER

Daily Smart Features

CONNECTIVITY
CONNECT IQ™ (DOWNLOADABLE WATCH FACES, DATA FIELDS, WIDGETS AND APPS)
SMART NOTIFICATIONS
CALENDAR
WEATHER
CONTROLS SMARTPHONE MUSIC
FIND MY PHONE
FIND MY WATCH
SMARTPHONE COMPATIBILITY iPhone®, Android™
PAIRS WITH GARMIN CONNECT™ MOBILE

Safety and Tracking Features

LIVETRACK
LIVE EVENT SHARING Android™ Only
INCIDENT DETECTION DURING SELECT ACTIVITIES
ASSISTANCE

Activity Tracking Features

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
DISTANCE TRAVELED
INTENSITY MINUTES
TRUEUP™
MOVE IQ™

Gym & Fitness Equipment

AVAILABLE GYM ACTIVITY PROFILES Cardio and Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, HIIT, Pilates, Yoga

Training, Planning and Analysis Features

HR ZONES
HR ALERTS
HR CALORIES
RECOVERY TIME
AUTO MAX HR
HR BROADCAST (BROADCASTS HR DATA OVER ANT+™ TO PAIRED DEVICES)
RESPIRATION RATE (DURING EXERCISE) Yoga and Breathwork only
GPS SPEED AND DISTANCE
CUSTOMIZABLE DATA PAGES
CUSTOMIZABLE ACTIVITY PROFILES
AUTO PAUSE®
INTERVAL TRAINING
ADVANCED WORKOUTS
DOWNLOADABLE TRAINING PLANS
AUTO LAP®
MANUAL LAP
CONFIGURABLE LAP ALERTS
VO2 MAX (RUN)
IMPROVED RECOVERY TIME yes (limited)
DAILY SUGGESTED WORKOUTS yes (limited)
AUDIO PROMPTS
FINISH TIME
TOUCH AND/OR BUTTON LOCK
ACTIVITY HISTORY ON WATCH
PHYSIO TRUEUP

Running Features

AVAILABLE RUN PROFILES Running, Treadmill Running, Track Running, Indoor Track Running, Virtual Running
GPS-BASED DISTANCE, TIME AND PACE
CADENCE (PROVIDES REAL-TIME NUMBER OF STEPS PER MINUTE)
PACEPRO™ PACING STRATEGIES
RUN WORKOUTS
RACE PREDICTOR
FOOT POD CAPABLE

Outdoor Recreation

AREA CALCULATION yes (via Connect IQ™)
HUNT/FISH CALENDAR yes (via Connect IQ™)
SUN AND MOON INFORMATION yes (via Connect IQ™)

Cycling Features

ALERTS (TRIGGERS ALARM WHEN YOU REACH GOALS INCLUDING TIME, DISTANCE, HEART RATE OR CALORIES)
AVAILABLE CYCLING PROFILES Biking, Indoor Biking
SPEED AND CADENCE SENSOR SUPPORT (W/SENSOR)

Swimming Features

AVAILABLE SWIM PROFILES Pool Swimming
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
COUNTDOWN START (POOL SWIM ONLY)
UNDERWATER WRIST-BASED HEART RATE

Kid Activity Tracking Features

TOE-TO-TOE™ CHALLENGES APP Yes (optional Connect IQ app)

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Charging/data cable
Documentation

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