The i-Run team says
Whether it's for your regular running sessions or your new sporting challenges, the Garmin Forerunner 255 watch is a true tool for progression. Its advanced design allows you to reach your most demanding goals.
Equipped with the Elevate Gen 4 heart rate monitor and the Pulse Ox 2.0 pulse oximeter, it records valuable data about your fitness. Thanks to this information, it offers you training recommendations and health insights right from the moment you wake up.
Several sports profiles are available to help you make the most of your activities. A swimming mode for pool and open water provides the necessary elements to excel in these disciplines.
To improve your performance, an analysis is conducted to optimize your recovery after exertion. The Garmin Connect application gives you access to organizing and creating training sessions based on your level and goals.
Using constant calculations, the multi-band GPS locates your position with great precision even in challenging locations. The barometric altimeter enhances your experience during outdoor activities.
Ideal for self-care, it incorporates the Fitness Age 2.0 algorithm and the HRV test. The latter evaluates the interval between two heartbeats to measure your fitness condition and stress level.
Available in two sizes, the color screen ensures a pleasant use and great shock resistance. Redesigned for better autonomy, it follows you for 30 hours in GPS mode and up to fourteen days in connected mode.
Key features of the Garmin Forerunner 255 watch
- Nylon wristband
- Elevate Gen 4 heart rate monitor: measures heart rate 24/7 even underwater
- Pulse Ox 2.0 pulse oximeter: blood oxygen level
- Barometric altimeter: analyzes altitude changes and storm risks
- Compass, accelerometer, and temperature sensor
- Multi-band GPS and Multi-GNSS (GPS, GLONASS, GALILEO): improved location precision in challenging environments (urban, canyons...)
- Morning Report: summary of sleep data and training suggestions
- Daily training suggestions: daily training advice and recommendations for running and cycling based on your HRV status, training status, and recovery level.
- Sleep Score 2.0 and in-depth sleep analysis: sleep quality
- Fitness Age 2.0: calculates your fitness level
- HRV test: calculates the interval variation between heartbeats
- Several sports profiles
- 24/7 activity tracking: step counter, sleep, calories, floors, distance, fitness age, daily effort, and intensive minutes
- VO2 Max
- New track running profile: better GPS positioning for tracking your course
- Running power: (without additional accessories) displays developed power data
- Grade-adjusted pace: helps maintain consistent effort
- Running widget: training advice, predicted time for your next race, based on course details, fitness data, weather, etc.
- Race Predictor Trend: tracks your race time progression
- Pace Pro (requires an HRM belt with Running Dynamics)
- Running Power: calculates the power in watts you apply on the ground while running (requires an HRM belt with Running Dynamics)
- Indoor sports profiles: HIIT and other intense indoor activity advice and training
- Over 30 integrated sports profiles
- Animated workouts: over 1400 customizable exercises displayed directly on the watch with muscle groups worked
- New swimming profile for pool and open water: distance, recovery, wrist heart rate, stroke detection, and Drill Mode
- New multisport mode: creation and customization of any activity sequence, allows changing disciplines with a single button press
- Training status: evaluates your training status and indicates whether you are undertraining, overtraining, or in a productive period
- 7-day Load / Acute Load: compares the intensity of your recent training sessions to your optimal performance range
- Garmin Connect: create your workouts
- Garmin Coach: free plan based on your level and schedule
- Automatic training recommendations based on your fitness, stress level, sleep...
- Improved recovery time analysis
- Enhanced performance analysis
- Garmin Pay
- Weather
- Smart notifications: smart notifications from your compatible smartphone
- Music control
- Find my watch or phone function (must be connected to Garmin Connect Mobile via a compatible smartphone)
- Garmin Connect Mobile: watch settings adjustments on the app
- LiveTrack: allows your friends and family to follow your activities in real-time
- Body Battery: evaluates energy reserves, optimizing active and rest times
- Live Events on Android
- Improved menstrual cycle and pregnancy tracking
- Safety: automatic incident detection or option to alert a contact of danger
- Garmin Connect IQ: watch customization and applications
- Available in two screen sizes: fits all wrist sizes
- Battery life: 30 hours in GPS mode and up to 14 days in connected watch mode
- Bluetooth and ANT+
- Screen: 45 mm, 1.3? with MIP transflective color display
- Screen resolution: 260 x 260 pixels
- Glass material: Corning Gorilla
- Weight: 49 g
- Water resistance: 5 ATM - 50 meters
Discover the entire Garmin Forerunner range and find the cardio GPS watch that will accompany you during hours of activity!
Technical description
Materials and Physical Characteristics:
- 1.3-inch color screen
- Weight: 49 g
- Case size (width x length x height): 4.56 x 4.56 x 1.29 cm
- Water resistance: 5 ATM
- Screen resolution: 260 x 260 pixels
- Screen type: anti-glare, memory-in-pixel (MIP) transflective
- Glass type: Corning Gorilla Glass 3
- Memory/history: 2000 hours of data
- Charging/data cable
- Nylon strap
- Documentation
Wellness Functions:
- Step count and activity bar
- Calories burned
- Advanced sleep analysis
- Stress analysis and Body Battery
- Wrist heart rate monitor
- Wrist heart rate monitor underwater
- Morning Report
Performance and Training Functions:
- Auto Pause function
- Virtual Partner/pacing alert
- Personal records
- Race widget
- Back to start
- Advanced Running Dynamics (stride analysis) requires HRM belt
- PacePro
- Running Power
- Grade-adjusted pace
- Pool swimming
- Performance condition
- Anaerobic/aerobic Training Effect
- Training load and status
- Recovery time
- Race predictor
- Lactate threshold
- HRV/VFC
- Triathlon mode - Manual transition
- Compatible with power meter (cycling)
- Open water activity
- Multi-GNSS and Multi-band
- 7 days charge
- Morning report
- Aerobic Training Effect
- Anaerobic Training Effect
- Training status
- VO2 Max
- Recovery time
- Race prediction
- Training functions
- Daily workout suggestion
- Garmin Coach
- Specific alerts and alarms
- Metronome
- Triathlon profile
- Bike speed and cadence
- Compatible with Varia lights and radar
- New activity profiles
- Muscle map (Pilates, HIIT, Cardio)
- My workouts app
- Training load distribution
Smart Functions:
- Connect IQ Store
- LiveTrack
- Assistance request & incident detection
- Contactless payment with Garmin Pay
- Smart notifications
Technologies
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Fréquence cardiaque
Permanently display your beats per minute to help you improve your physical condition.
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Running Dynamics
- Stride Length: Measure the distance traveled horizontally towards your destination.
- Ground Contact Time Balance: Measure your balance during ground contact to determine if your run is symmetrical.
- Vertical Ratio: Observe the effort required to move towards your destination. A low score indicates low energy expenditure or low bounce for a high stride length.
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Body Battery
Optimize your body's energy reserves by using heart rate variability, stress, sleep, and other data to assess your fitness level or when you should rest.
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Pulse Ox
Pulse measurement, a pulse oximeter measures the amount of oxygen (relative to the maximum capacity) in the blood as it moves through your body.
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LiveTrack
Incident detection and assistance request functions.
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Garmin Coach
Are you training for a 5K, 10K, or a half marathon? Download a custom-fit Garmin Coach training plan for free, tailored to your schedule and abilities.
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Garmin Connect
Garmin Connect is an online community where athletes can connect and compete by participating in challenges, encouraging each other, and sharing their performances via social networks. Garmin Connect is free and available on your smartphone with the Garmin Connect Mobile app.
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VO2 Max
Train smarter with VO2 Max, an indicator of your performance.
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Garmin Connect IQ
Personalize your watch with watch faces, data fields, apps, and free widgets from the Connect IQ TM store.
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PacePro
Plan your race strategy with the PacePro TM 3 feature that offers GPS pace guidance based on elevation for a selected course or distance in the Garmin Connect TM app.
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Profil d'activité HIIT
Proposal for a selection of HIIT training options, such as AMRAP, EMOM, Tabata, and much more. HIIT provides tips throughout your workouts, sets the number of rounds, and chooses the work/rest intervals.
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Race Predictor Trend
The Race Predictor function displays, on a graph, the evolution of race time predictions over the long term, allowing you to better track the development of your capabilities and performance.
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GNSS Multi-bandes
This unique new feature from Garmin is a technological achievement, delivering unparalleled GPS location accuracy. Thanks to the constant recalibration of position by the watch on both frequencies of each multi-band compatible GNSS network, this technology effectively identifies and eliminates erroneous positioning data, thereby offering much higher accuracy, especially in canyons, cities, and challenging alpine environments.
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Elevate
The wrist-based optical heart rate monitor of Garmin smartwatches is a useful tool that enables the user to obtain precise heart rate estimates at any time. The optical heart rate monitor is designed to monitor the user's heart rate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
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Suivi menstruel et grossesse 2.0
Allows you to track menstrual cycles and display cycle details as well as other statistics on Garmin Connect.
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Fitness Age 2.0
New algorithm using the user's chronological age, VO2 Max, resting heart rate, and either BMI or body fat percentage (BMI will be used if body fat percentage is not available). Indicates to users whether their body is "older" or "younger" than they are.
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Suivi de respiration 2.0
Enables the consultation of respiration data throughout the day, during sleep, and during yoga and breathing activities.
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Test HRV/VFC
Heart rate variability is the variation in the time interval between two heartbeats. The level of HRV varies greatly among individuals, but in general, a high HRV is considered a marker of good physical fitness and health, while a low HRV is associated with negative health effects and a high level of stress.
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Profil d'activité Piste
For greater accuracy on the track, the track activity profile increases the frequency of GPS position updates.
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Running Power
The "Running Power" feature utilizes metrics such as pace, vertical oscillation, slope, and even wind force to calculate the power in watts that you apply to the ground while running. By knowing the power you expend each minute and each kilometer, you can manage your pace more effectively and thus better manage your effort.
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Entraînements animés
More than 1400 fully customizable exercises available. Displays the muscle groups worked during the activity directly on the watch.
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Live Events
Live Events Sharing (Android only) allows your entourage to interact via text messages and send encouragements.
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Puissance en course à pied
The running power function developed by Garmin utilizes metrics such as pace, vertical oscillation, incline, and even wind resistance to calculate the power you transfer to the ground while running.
By obtaining the power you expend each minute and each kilometer, you can manage your pace more easily and thus avoid tiring yourself out too quickly.
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Rythme adapté à la pente
Whether uphill or downhill, runners can now obtain their equivalent pace on flat terrain, making it easier to maintain a steady effort.
