Product description
SOLAR POWERED BATTERY
Get up to 20 days of battery life in smartwatch mode with solar charging1. In GPS mode, get up to 42 hours and up to 49 hours when solar charging2. With UltraTrac™ mode, go even longer with up to 110 hours when solar charging2.
TOUCHSCREEN AND BUTTONS
Click or swipe through maps and stats with traditional button controls or a new, responsive touchscreen.
TAILORED TO THE DEDICATED
Clocking in at just 52 grams, the Forerunner 955 smartwatch will keep you light on your feet and attuned to your body.
TRAINING READINESS
From the moment you wake up, get a readiness score based on your sleep quality, recovery, training load, and more, so you can determine whether it’s a good day to go hard — or take it easy.
MORNING REPORT
Receive an overview of your sleep, recovery, and training outlook as soon as you wake up — alongside HRV status, training readiness, and weather. You can even customize your report to show what you want to see.
HRV STATUS
Gain a more profound understanding of your overall health, recovery, and training performance through heart rate variability while you sleep, based on technology developed by our Firstbeat Analytics™ team.
RACE ADAPTIVE TRAINING PLANS
Get ready for your next race, including marathons, with training tips, personalized daily suggested workouts, and completion time predictions. Just enter your race, and we’ll build a plan that’ll help you meet your goals.
DAILY SUGGESTED WORKOUTS
View your entire week of daily recommended workouts, which adapt after every run to match your performance and recovery, as well as the races coming up in your Garmin Connect™ smartphone app calendar.
GARMIN COACH
Free adaptive training plans include 5K, 10K, and half-marathon programs, featuring guidance from expert coaches that adapt to you and your goals.
TRIATHLON AND MULTISPORT PROFILES
Switch between sports with one press by using built-in profiles for triathlons, duathlons, brick workouts, and swim runs. Or, create your own custom multisport profiles.
WRIST-BASED RUNNING DYNAMICS
This smartwatch measures crucial running metrics such as cadence, stride length, ground contact time, and more.
WRIST-BASED RUNNING POWER
See how much power you’re applying to the trail or the road so you can manage your effort and fine-tune your training. No accessory is required.
ENDURANCE SCORE
This feature measures your ability to sustain prolonged efforts and combines training data from all of your athletic pursuits to help you understand how training impacts your overall endurance. This dynamic measurement uses your VO2 max, short-term/long-term training loads, and other factors to gauge your fitness progress beyond just VO2 max.
HILL SCORE
This feature measures your capability for running uphill and evaluates your progress over time based on your VO2 max and training history. It measures your running strength on steep ascents and running endurance on long ascents, and provides a score based on your performance over time.
REAL-TIME STAMINA
Use this data to track and manage your exertion — and help avoid overexerting at the start of your run or bike ride.
TRAINING STATUS
Using new indicators such as HRV status, your recent exercise history, and performance get an easy insight into your overall effort — and whether you’re training productively, peaking, or strained.
ACUTE LOAD
Compare the intensity of your recent workouts to the optimal range to improve your fitness and training history.
TRAINING EFFECT
See how your workouts influence your endurance, speed, and power with aerobic and anaerobic training effect feedback.
PACEPRO™ FEATURE
The PacePro feature helps keep you on pace with grade-adjusted guidance as you run a course.
GRADE-ADJUSTED PACE
Don’t run out of steam before the activity is over. Understand how to adjust your pace over varying terrain to perform according to your plan.
RECOVERY TIME
Know how long to recover before your next high-effort workout based on your latest training as well as overall stress, sleep, and daily activities outside of workouts.
VO2 MAX
Train smarter with VO2 max, an indicator of how you can expect to perform. This metric even accounts for changes in performance that could be caused by heat or altitude.
PERFORMANCE CONDITION
While you run, get an analysis of your pace, heart rate, and heart rate variability for a real-time assessment of your current ability to perform.
SYNC TRAINING PLANS
Get your indoor and outdoor training plans from the Garmin ConnectTM app, or sync seamlessly to your Forerunner smartwatch from other platforms, including TrainingPeaks® and more.
BUILT-IN SPORTS APPS
Switch up your workouts with activity profiles for cycling, triathlon, pool and open-water swimming, track running, and more. For races and brick workouts, switch sports with a single button press.
TRACK RUNNING
Ready for some speed work? Input your lane on the built-in track run activity to record accurate lap distances and see your distances in meters.
VISUAL RACE PREDICTOR
Based on your running history and overall fitness level, get an estimate of what your pace could be for a 5K, 10K — or even a marathon. Plus, trend data highlights your training’s impact over time.
TARGETED ADAPTIVE COACHING FOR CYCLING
View your entire week of daily suggested cycling workouts directly on your smartwatch — which adapt to match your performance and the demands of upcoming events in your Garmin Connect™ smartphone app calendar.
