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Forerunner® 955, Black, Australia and New Zealand

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010-02638-50
Forerunner 955 is a premium running watch that features a responsive touchscreen, up to 15-day battery life, HRV status, and much more.
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Pushing toward the podium? Get this on your wrist. Train your best, perform your best, and put yourself in the running at your next race.


EXTENDED BATTERY LIFE


TOUCHSCREEN AND BUTTONS


TAILORED TO THE DEDICATED


TRAINING READINESS


MORNING REPORT


HRV STATUS


DAILY SUGGESTED WORKOUTS


GARMIN COACH


TRIATHLON AND MULTISPORT PROFILES


WRIST-BASED RUNNING DYNAMICS


WRIST-BASED RUNNING POWER


ENDURANCE SCORE


HILL SCORE


REAL-TIME STAMINA


RUNNING DYNAMICS


TRAINING STATUS


ACUTE LOAD


TRAINING EFFECT


PacePro™ Feature


RECOVERY TIME


VO2 MAX


PERFORMANCE CONDITION


SYNC TRAINING PLANS


BUILT-IN SPORTS APPS


TRACK RUNNING


VISUAL RACE PREDICTOR


TARGETED ADAPTIVE COACHING

  • Get up to 15 days of battery life in smartwatch mode for a full picture of your health — from sleep to training.
  • Swipe through stats and maps with a new, responsive touchscreen.
  • Confidently run any route using full-colour, built-in maps and multi-band GPS.
  • Know when you’re primed for a productive session with training readiness.
  • Plan your strategy with daily suggested workouts, course details and more on the race widget.
  • Know if you're undertraining or overdoing it, with an improved training status feature.
  • Get up to 15 days of battery life in smartwatch mode. In GPS mode, get up to 42 hours. And in UltraTrac™ mode, go even longer with up to 80 hours.
  • Click or swipe through maps and stats with traditional button controls or a new, responsive touchscreen.
  • Clocking in at just 52 grams, the Forerunner 955 smartwatch will keep you light on your feet and attuned to your body.
  • 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.
  • 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 customise your report to show what you want to see.
  • Gain a deeper understanding of your overall health, training and recovery through heart rate variability while you sleep, based on technology developed by our Firstbeat Analytics™ team.
  • View your entire week of daily suggested 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.
  • Train for an event, achieve a milestone, or improve your fitness with Garmin Coach training plans for runners. Just set it up in the Garmin Connect™ app, then let Garmin Coach create personalised daily workouts to help you reach your goals — from your first 5K to a full marathon. This includes Garmin Run Coach, which creates plans that adapt based on your performance, recovery and health metrics.
  • Switch between sports automatically by using built-in profiles for triathlons, duathlons, brick workouts and swimruns – so you can focus on the race and let your watch take care of recording splits. You can also create your own custom multisport profiles.
  • This smartwatch measures crucial running metrics such as cadence, stride length, ground contact time and more.
  • Get a continuous measurement on your wrist of how much power you’re applying to the road as you run when using a Running Dynamics Pod or HRM-Pro™ heart rate monitor.
  • 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.
  • 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 it provides a score based on your performance over time.
  • Use this data to track and manage your exertion — and help avoid overexerting at the start of your run or bike.
  • When using a Running Dynamics Pod or HRM-Pro heart rate monitor, the Forerunner 955 watch measures crucial running metrics such as cadence, stride length, ground contact time and balance, and more.
  • 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.
  • Compare the intensity of your recent workouts to the optimal range to help improve your fitness and see your training history.
  • See how your workouts influence your endurance, speed and power with aerobic and anaerobic training effect feedback.
  • The PacePro feature helps keep you on pace with grade-adjusted guidance as you run a course.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Get your indoor and outdoor training plans from the Garmin Connect™ app, or sync seamlessly to your Forerunner from other platforms including TrainingPeaks® and TrainerRoad.
  • 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.
  • Record accurate lap distances and see your distances in metres – even on a track you’ve never run before with a database with more than 10,000 tracks (400 metres) from all over the world.
  • 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.
  • 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.

SATIQ™ TECHNOLOGY

Multi-band GNSS with SatIQ technology ensures the best positioning accuracy in any environment while also optimising the device’s battery life.


Full-colour Mapping

Whether you’re running on city streets or riding densely covered trails, Forerunner 955 provides full-colour, built-in mapping to keep you on track.


TURN-BY-TURN NAVIGATION

Follow a course with help from turn-by-turn directions, which let you know ahead of time when the next turn is coming.


ROUND-TRIP ROUTING

With Trendline™ popularity routing, it’s easy to find the best local paths. Just enter a desired distance, and Forerunner 955 will suggest courses that bring you back to your starting point.


UP AHEAD

Get at-a-glance awareness for points of interest along the course. In addition, view performance metrics, split times and distance/elevation — plus a summary of key course points coming up.


CLIMBPRO FEATURE

Use ClimbPro ascent planner on downloaded courses to see real-time information on your current and upcoming climbs, including gradient, distance and elevation gain.


SAFETY AND TRACKING FEATURES

If you feel unsafe or if your watch senses that an incident occurred, Assistance and incident detection features1 send your location to emergency contacts. Incident detection is enabled by default for select activity profiles only.


Courses

Create or find existing courses in the Garmin Connect app, so you’ll never run out of places to run. Or plan one on other platforms such as Strava and Komoot, then automatically sync them to your Forerunner smartwatch.


WRIST-BASED HEART RATE

The watch constantly samples your heart rate2 with our latest-generation heart rate sensor and will alert you if it stays too high or too low while you’re at rest. It also helps gauge how hard you work during activities — even while swimming.


BODY BATTERY™ ENERGY MONITORING

See your energy levels throughout the day so you’ll know when your body is charged up and ready for activity or drained and needing to recharge with restful sleep. And get even more details and personal insights on how sleep, naps, daily activities and high stress specifically impact your energy2.


SLEEP COACH

Get personalised coaching for how much sleep you need and tips on how you can improve. Use this guidance to find the right balance between challenging activities and your body’s natural recovery process2.


Nap detection

Automatically track or log your naps to see how they benefit your body and to check the recommended time and duration they should be.


PULSE OX SENSOR

This wrist-based Pulse Ox sensor3 monitors blood oxygen saturation levels to support advanced sleep monitoring and altitude acclimation.


WOMEN’S HEALTH TRACKING

Use the Garmin Connect app to track your menstrual cycle or pregnancy. Log symptoms, get exercise and nutrition education, and more. Even see and log details on your wrist with the Women's Health Tracking app.


HEALTH SNAPSHOT™ FEATURE

Log a 2-minute session to record key stats, including heart rate2, heart rate variability, Pulse Ox3, respiration and stress. Then generate a report with those stats via the Garmin Connect™ app on your compatible smartphone to share.


MUSIC ON YOUR WRIST

Download songs and playlists from your Spotify, Deezer or YouTube® Music accounts for phone-free listening (subscription may be required).


GARMIN PAY™ CONTACTLESS PAYMENTS

Breeze through checkout lines with Garmin Pay contactless payments4 through participating providers.


SMART NOTIFICATIONS

Receive emails, texts and alerts right on your watch when paired with your Apple® or Android™ smartphone. You can even respond to texts if you have an Android phone.


Smart trainer control

Control your Tacx® Smart trainer via ANT+® technology for course simulation, automatic resistance changes and workout prompts when you use courses or workouts from your watch.


GARMIN CONNECT APP

See your health and fitness information, connect and compete with friends, sign up for challenges to earn badges and more.


CONNECT IQ™ STORE

Add watch faces, data fields and apps to your paired watch from the Connect IQ Store app downloaded on your compatible smartphone.