Garmin Forerunner 955

The new Garmin Forerunner 955 is the GPS sports watch that every runner and / or triathlete expects to improve performance with as a multisport athlete. The new member of the recognized and successful Garmin Forerunner family comes with improvements in terms of enjoying a longer battery life, as well as a lighter, more adaptable and more intuitive design with its touch screen and its complementary quick access buttons.

This Garmin Forerunner 955 GPS sports watch will be the device that helps you take that leap of quality in your progression as an athlete, since it is optimized to know when you can be prepared with that new functionality of the predisposition to train; to know first hand, if you are training above or below the optimal level, thanks to that function of improved training status; even plan your strategy with recommended daily training sessions.

What are the main new features and highlights of the Garmin Forerunner 955?

In the chapter of the most important new features of this renewed Garmin Forerunner 955 we can talk about different sections to consider:

More functional and adaptable design.

Regarding the lens, this Garmin Forerunner 955 includes the highly resistant Corning Gorilla Glass DX. Thanks to its resolution of 260 x 260 pixels and its 1.3 display, you will have no problem viewing and evaluating all your training parameters, and its touch screen, color and transflective display provide optimal visibility and readability, even when the sunlight falls directly on the screen of the watch. Its resistance is reinforced with a fiber-reinforced polymer and a weight of 52 grams.

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Longer battery life

As we have already noted, one of the main novelties of this Garmin Forerunner 955 is the longer battery life:

• smart watch mode: up to 15 days.
• Only GPS mode with music: up to 42 hours.
• GNSS mode (all systems) and multiband with music : up to 8.5 hours.
• GNSS mode (all systems) and multiband without music: up to 20 hours.
• GPS mode only with music: up to 42 hours.
• Ultratrac mode: up to 80.

Designed for the most demanding workouts

This Garmin sports watch includes high performance features to squeeze the most out of your training sessions: heart rate variability (HRV) status, morning report, training bias function, running widget, power and running dynamics, VO2 max, recovery time, PacePro, training capacity, and even the race forecast, among many other features.

Don't forget the ability to track and plan your routes with the integrated, full-color topographic maps, with specific functions such as ClimbPro, turn-by-turn navigation, round-trip routes or also the safety and tracking functions, for example.

Outstanding smart functions

On the other hand, this Garmin Forerunner 955 also bets on offering those functions that help to keep under control our health and daily well-being. Among its smart functions stand out:

• Pulse Oximeter: monitors blood oxygen saturation levels.
• Body Battery: displays current energy levels for the multisport athlete.
• Specific functions for the more active female athlete: menstrual cycle tracking.
• Sleep scoring and sleep acclimatization.
• Health Snapshot function: through a 2 session records all important parameters to generate a subsequent report (pulse oximetry, heart rate, respiration, breathing and stress).

In addition, and as good top of the range GPS sports watch that is, this Garmin Forerunner 955 allows you to carry up to 500 downloaded songs, as well as playlists from Spotify, Amazon Music and Deezer (under subscription). Playing your hits that motivate you while you run.

As with the high-end Garmin Fenix series, this Forerunner GPS sports watch also allows contactless payment through the Garmin Pay system, as well as receiving notifications of calls, text messages, social media updates and alerts, received on a compatible smartphone.

Garmin Forerunner 955 technical specifications and pricing.

• Lens: Corning Gorilla Glass DX
• Bezel: Fiber-reinforced polymer.
• Strap: Silicone.
• Weight: 53 grams.
• Case size: 465 x 465 x 14.4 mm (130-220mm circumference).
• Color and touch screen: yes.
• Screen size: 13 inches (33mm diameter).
• Resolution: 260 x 260 pixels.
• Display type: Transflective, sunlight viewable and memory in MIP.
• Water resistance: 5 ATM.
• Memory/History: Bluetooth, ANT+.
• GPS systems: GPS, Galileo and GLONASS.
• Sensors: optimal heart rateGarmin Elevate), barometric altimeter, compass, gyroscope, accelerometer, thermometer and pulse oximetry acclimatization.
• Connectivity: Bluetooth®, ANT+®, Wi-Fi®.
• Tracking and safety functions: Yes.
• Tactical features: Yes (Dual grid coordinates)
• Liveactivity tracking features: yes (step counter, inactivity line, auto target, calories burned, floors climbed, distance traveled, intensity minutes, etc.).
• Fitness/Gym equipment: Yes.
• Running functions: Yes.
• Outdoors leisure functions: running, trail running, fitness, hiking, climbing, skiing, snowboarding, ski mountaineering, classic cross-country skiing, cross-country skiing (skate mode), paddle surfing, rowing, kayaking, snowshoeing, tennis, pickleball, paddle tennis.
• Golf functions: Yes.
• Cycling functions: Yes.
• Swimming functions: Yes.

The last interesting section that we are going to tell you about this new Garmin Forerunner 955 refers to that question you are asking yourself: How much does this top of the line Garmin cost? Know that its RRP is £439.99! In addition you also have the premium version of the Garmin Forerunner 955 Solar -greater autonomy with solar charging-, and an affordable price of £519.99 RRP.