The i-Run team says
With its exceptional reliability, the Garmin Forerunner 955 watch is the perfect option for your sports sessions. It's perfect for making rapid progress and gaining valuable information.
Wake up full of ambition thanks to the Morning Report, which displays a summary of your sleep and suggests your workouts for the day. The new HRV/VFC test analyses the variability of your heart rate during the night to assess your physical condition and your state of health.
The Stamina process gives you the chance to monitor your tone reserves and the time remaining before you end your exertion in real time. The levels displayed give you an accurate idea of your energy expenditure and enable you to adjust your pace.
The heart rate monitor Garmin Elevate Gen 4 and Pulse Ox 2.0 pulse oximeter look after you at all times. These sensors are combined with activity and wellness tracking features to help you stay in tip-top shape.
Multi-band GNSS promises infallible location tracking thanks to constant recalculation of your position via multiple satellites. Integrated cartography offers access to directions on multiple roads and trails. Popularity Routing shows you which routes are most popular with the Garmin community.
You can view all your notifications and your favourite music tracks on the touchscreen. Fitted with Corning Gorilla glass, it has great resistance to shocks.
Battery life is 42 hours with GPS, 80 hours with Ultratrac and 15 days in smart watch mode.
Key points of the Garmin Forerunner 955 watch
- Multi-continent mapping: Wi-Fi update
- Stamina: endurance level in real time, estimation of achievable effort and optimisation of energy management
- GNSS multi-band: GPS, GLONASS, IRNSS and GALILEO
- Morning Report: summary of your sleep, training suggestions, weather etc.
- HRV/VFC test: assesses your physical condition and state of health
- Running Power: calculation of the power in watts you apply to the ground while running (requires HRM belt, not included, incorporating Running Dynamics)
- Race Predictor Trend: predict race times and track your performance on a graph
- Multi-continent cartography: contour lines, elevations, peaks, parks, coasts, rivers, lakes and other geographical features
- Elevate Gen 4 continuous heart rate: measures the intensity of your sports activities and your stress levels
- 1400 animated workouts: for cardio, strength training, yoga and pilates. Customisable, display of muscle groups worked on
- Multisports: running, trail, swimming, cycling, hiking, rowing, skiing, golf etc.
- PacePro: pace management over a set distance
- Garmin Coach: download training plans
- Running power: (without additional accessories) which displays data about power developed.
- Rhythm adapted to the gradient: makes it easier to maintain a steady pace
- HIIT activity profile: workouts and advice
- Body Battery: optimises your energy reserves
- ClimbPro: information about your climbs
- Functions for running and swimming
- MTB Dynamics: specific data for mountain biking
- Backcountry snowboarding: analysis of exertion during ascents and descents
- Disc Golf: 14,000 golf courses with the UDisc Connect IQ app
- Popularity Routing: display of the trails most used by Garmin users.
- Pulse OX 2.0 pulse oximeter: oxygen level in the body
- Fitness Age 2.0: shows the age of your body via VO2 Max, resting heart rate and BMI or body fat percentage
- Sleep analysis
- Monitors hydration and respiration
- Altimeter for altitude data
- Barometer for weather and altitude variations
- Notification reception
- Safety and tracking: assistance and incident detection functions send a message telling your emergency contacts your location
- Music and map storage: 32 Gb
- Garmin Pay: contactless payment
- Connect IQ: customisation via the application
- Wi-Fi and Bluetooth
- Battery life: 42 hours with GPS, 15 days in smartwatch mode and 80 hours in Ultratrac
- Dimensions: 46.5 x 46.5 x 14.4 mm
- Touchscreen display: 1.3' (33 mm diameter), 260 x 260 pixels, sunlight readable and transflective MIP.
- Glass materials: Corning Gorilla Glass DX
- Case materials: fibre-reinforced polymer
- Bezel materials: composite
- Strap: QuickFit 22 mm compatible, suitable for wrists with a circumference between 130 and 220 mm
- Water resistance: 5 ATM/50 metres
- Complies with MIL-STD-810G military standards: resistance
- Weight: 53 g
- Colour: white
The whole Garmin Forerunner watch collection
Technical description
Box contents:
Forerunner 955
- Charging cable
- Documentation
- Wristband: 22 mm QuickFit compatible, suitable for wrists between 130 and 220 mm in circumference
Physical characteristics:
- Dimensions: 46.5 x 46.5 x 14.4 mm
- Glass material: Corning Gorilla Glass DX
- Case material: fibre-reinforced polymer
- Bezel materials: composite
- Weight: 53 g
- Water resistance: 5 ATM
Screen:
Size: 1.3".
- Resolution: 260 x 260 pixels
- Diameter: 33 mm
- Touchscreen, sunlight-readable and transflective memory-in-pixel (MIP)
Main features:
- Training preparation
- Morning report
- HRV/VFC status
- Race widget
- Racing power
- Stamina
- Multi GNSS and multi-band
- Daily training suggestions
- Training status
- 7-day charge
- Multi-continent mapping
- Music on your wrist without a phone
- Garmin coach
- Running dynamics (stride analysis)
- Sports applications
- Safety devices
- Connect IQ
- Connected functions
- Garmin Pay
- Body battery
Battery life:
Connected mode: up to 2 weeks.
- GNSS all systems mode + Multi-Band and music: up to 8.5 hours
- GPS alone: up to 42 hours
- GNSS mode for all systems + Multi-Band without music: up to 20 hours
- Ultratrac mode: up to 80 hours
Technologies
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Ant+
Wireless technology enabling the automatic transfer of data to the computer when it is within range of the watch.
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Ecran tactile
Touch and swipe your finger on the touch screen for full control of the watch.
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Fréquence cardiaque
Permanently display your beats per minute to help you improve your physical condition.
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Entraînements avancés
Offers advanced training functions (Fartlek, 30-30, intensity session, pyramid, etc.) and customizable options
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Virtual Racer
is a training tool designed to help you improve your performance. By downloading a race onto your watch or reviewing a past record, you will be able to compare yourself to it.
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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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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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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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Cycle Menstruel
Use the Garmin Connect app to track your menstrual cycle or pregnancy. Record your symptoms, get exercise and nutrition tips, and much more.
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Stamina
Use this feature to monitor and manage your energy throughout your challenges. Stamina is a revolutionary management tool that helps you avoid overexerting yourself at the start of your race or activity.
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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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Fonction Up Ahead
This feature allows you to display the essential information of the route on a single screen, such as performance data, split times, distance/altitude, as well as upcoming P.O.I (points of interest on the route) like refreshment zones.
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Cartographie multi-continents
Display the contour lines, elevations, summits, parks, coasts, rivers, lakes, and other geographical features.
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MTB Dynamics
Track the details of each ride with specific data for mountain biking, which assesses the trail's difficulty (Grit) and the smoothness (Flow) of your downhill riding. It also gives you a score to beat for next time.
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ClimbPro
Download a course, then use the ClimbPro feature to get real-time information on your current and upcoming climbs, including gradient, distance, and elevation gain, as well as descents and flat sections.
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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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Popularity Routing
Popularity Routing allows for the selection and suggestion of the most frequented routes, paths, and trails by locals. Garmin Connect Mobile, among the millions of data points from Garmin users, offers the route best suited to your activity.
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Âge physique
This function uses actual age, resting heart rate, and other factors to estimate whether your body is younger or older than you.
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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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Morning Report
Upon waking, the watch displays a summary of sleep data, as well as training suggestions for running and cycling, weather, etc.
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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 between individuals, but generally, 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.
The measurement is taken during sleep with a reading every 5 minutes. - The baseline is established over 7 days and is entirely unique for each user. - The baseline is balanced based on statistics from the last three months (minimum of 3 weeks), excluding the last week. - These data are used for the "training readiness" function.
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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.