Garmin Forerunner 955 watch

Stay on the cutting edge

Is your goal to reach the podium? Monitor your performance with a simple glance at your wrist. Train your best, give it your all and start running for your next race.

 

Features

• Lens material: Corning® Gorilla® Glass DX
• Bezel material: Fibre-reinforced polymer
• Compatible with Quickfit™ watch strap (22 mm compatible)
• Strap material: Silicone
• Case dimensions, WXLXA: 46.5 x 46.5 x 14.4 (mm) Suitable for wrists with a circumference of 130-220 mm
• Touchscreen 
• Colour screen 
• Screen size, LXA Diameter 1.3″ (33 mm)
• Screen resolution, LXA 260 x 260 pixels
• Screen type Anti-glare, MIP (Memory-In-Pixel) transflective
• Real weight: 52 g
• Water resistance classification Swimming, 5 ATM
• Memory/history: 32 GB

Extended battery life

• Smartwatch mode: up to 15 days
• GPS-only mode without music: up to 42 hours
• GNSS all systems plus multi-band mode with music: up to 8.5 hours
• GNSS mode all systems plus multi-band without music: up to 20 hours
• GPS-only mode without music: up to 42 hours
• UltraTrac mode: up to 80 hours

Touchscreen and keys
Click or scroll through maps and statistics with traditional push-button controls or a new touchscreen.

Customised for enthusiasts
Weighing just 52 grams, the Forerunner 955 smartwatch makes you feel light as a feather and in tune with your body.

Training preparation
From the moment you wake up, you get a workout readiness score based on the quality of your sleep, recovery, training load and more, so you can determine whether your day allows you to train harder or slower.

Morning report
You can view an overview of your sleep, along with an indication of heart rate variability and weather conditions. You can also customise the report to show only what you are interested in seeing.

HRV status
Get a deeper understanding of your overall health, training and recovery performance through variability of your heart rate while you sleep, based on technology developed by our FirstBeat Analytics™ team.

Race widget
Get ready for your next race with training tips, suggested daily workouts and predicted completion times based on route details, weather conditions and performance.

Suggested Daily Workouts
View a week's worth of suggested daily workouts that match your performance and recovery after each run, as well as scheduled races in the Garmin Connect™ smartphone app calendar.

Garmin coaches
Free, adaptive training plans include programmes for 5k, 10k and half marathons, with guidance from expert coaches to suit you and your goals.

Running power
You'll get a continuous pulse measurement of the power you apply on the course as you run with a Running Dynamics Pod or HRM-Pro™ heart rate monitor.

Real-time stamina
Use this data to monitor, manage effort and avoid over-exertion at the start of your run or ride.

Running Dynamics
When you use a Running Dynamics Pod or HRM-Pro heart rate monitor, the Forerunner 955 measures your running dynamics including cadence, stride length, ground contact time, balance and more.

Training status
Using new indicators such as heart rate variability status, your training history and recent performance, you'll get detailed information about your overall effort and whether your training is productive, very intense or too strenuous.

Recent training load
Compare the intensity of your recent workouts to improve your fitness and see your training history.

Training effect
Find out how your workouts affect your endurance, speed and power with Training Effect aerobic and anaerobic activity TRAINING EFFECT feedback.

Pacepro™ function
When you run on a course, the PacePro function helps you maintain your pace by providing guidance based on the incline.

Recovery time
Find out how much rest you need before your next high intensity exercise based on your last workouts, as well as your general stress, sleep and daily activities outside of training.

VO2 max
Train smarter with VO2 max, an indicator of your expected performance. This metric also takes into account variations in performance that might be caused by heat or altitude.

Performance condition
During your run, you can get an analysis of your pace, heart rate and heart rate variability for real-time assessment of your performance.

Synchronise training plans
Download outdoor or indoor training plans from the Garmin Connect™ app or sync your Forerunner with other platforms like TrainingPeaks® and TrainerRoad.

Preloaded Sport Profiles
Vary your workouts with activity profiles for cycling, triathlon, pool and open water swimming, track running and more. For races and block training, change sports at the touch of a button.

Race predictor
Based on your running history and general fitness level, get a prediction of your pace for 5km, 10km or even marathon runs. In addition, trend data shows the impact of your training over time.

Control your smart trainer
Control your Tacx® Smart Trainer via ANT+® technology for route simulation, automatic resistance changes and workout alerts when using routes or workouts from the watch.

Garmin connect
See your health and fitness information, connect and compete with friends, sign up for challenges to earn medals and more, all in one free, subscription-free app.

Connect IQ™ Store
From the Connect IQ Store app, downloaded to your compatible smartphone, you can add dials, data fields and apps to the associated watch.

Music on your wrist
Download up to 500 songs and playlists from your Spotify®, Deezer or Amazon Music accounts (subscription may be required).

Contactless payments
Speed up payments with Garmin Pay contactless payment solution4 via enabled providers.

Smart notification
Receive email, SMS and push alerts directly to your watch if it's paired with your Apple® or Android™ smartphone. You can also reply to messages if you have an Android phone.

Pulse ox sensor
This Pulse Ox sensor on your wrist3 monitors blood oxygen saturation levels to support advanced sleep monitoring and altitude acclimatisation.

Menstrual Cycle and Pregnancy
Use the Garmin Connect app to monitor your menstrual cycle or pregnancy. Record symptoms, get exercise and nutrition advice and more. You can view and record details right from your wrist.

Health Snapshot™ feature
With a 2-minute session you can record key statistics such as heart rate2, HRV, Pulse Ox3, breathing and stress. Then, via the Garmin Connect™ app on your compatible smartphone, generate a report with these statistics to share.

Heart Rate on your wrist
The smartwatch constantly records your heart rate2 with our state-of-the-art heart rate sensor and will alert you if your heart rate remains too high or too low while you're resting. It also allows you to measure the intensity of your activities, even while swimming.

Body Battery™ Energy Monitor
Measures your body's energy levels to know when is the best time to exercise and rest2.

Advanced sleep scoring and monitoring
Get a score for your sleep quality and information on how to improve. You can also monitor different stages of sleep as well as heart rate, stress, Ox3 pulse and breathing.

Tracking functions
If you feel unsafe or if the watch detects that an accident has occurred, the assistance and detection functions1 send your location to emergency contacts. Incident detection is activated by default only for selected activity profiles.

Routes
Create or find existing routes in the Garmin Connect app so you'll never run out of new routes to explore. Alternatively, plan them on other platforms like Strava and Komoot, then automatically sync them to your Forerunner smartwatch.

Round-trip navigation
With Trendline™ popularity-based routes, it's easy to find the best local trails. Just enter your desired distance and the Forerunner 955 will suggest routes that will take you back to your starting point.

Places on the Route
Get instant knowledge of points of interest along your route. It also displays performance metrics, split times and distance/score, plus a summary of upcoming milestones along the way.

ClimbPro function
Utilises ClimbPro ascent planning on downloaded routes. It allows you to view real-time information about the climbs you have done and those ahead, including gradient, distance and elevation gain.

Multi-band support
Access multiple global navigation satellite systems and multiple frequencies sent by navigation satellites for greater precision in areas where GNSS signals are reflected, weak or absent, giving you the highest accuracy on distance and speed, even in challenging environments.

Even clearer colour maps
For running in the city or biking in the country, the Forerunner 955 offers built-in colour maps to help you never lose your way.

Navigation with turn-by-turn directions
Follow a route with the help of turn-by-turn directions with pronounced street names that let you know in advance when you'll take the next turn.

 

Included

• Forerunner® 955.
• Charging/data cable.
• Documentation.