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Garmin Forerunner 55 Smartwatch - Black (42mm Case, GPS, Bluetooth)

Garmin Forerunner 55 Smartwatch - Black (42mm Case, GPS, Bluetooth)

$298

Garmin Forerunner 55 Smartwatch - Black (42mm Case, GPS, Bluetooth)

010-02562-00

$298

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How it works

Description

Garmin crafted the Forerunner 55 smartwatch to keep up with your active lifestyle. The Forerunner 55 offers daily suggested exercises, detailed running data, and different sports apps to efficiently accomplish your fitness goals. It combines a silicone band and a hard-wearing display with a sunlight-visible and transflective memory-in-pixel, making it easier to view and track readings on the smartwatch.

Key Features

Utilise the Garmin Coach feature to achieve your fitness goals. The Forerunner 55 offers free training plans and skilful coaches to assist and guide you in your workouts.
This Forerunner 55 employs up to 2 weeks of battery life during smartwatch mode. When GPS mode is on, the smartwatch can offer up to 20 hours of power.
For a more personalised training session, you can use the smartwatch’s Daily Suggestion Workouts feature. It recommends various intense training based on your fitness level, history, and recovery time.
Its built-in GPS lets you track your location, speed, and how far you’ve been running. You can also use the Finish Time feature to choose a distance for your runs and check your estimated running record.
Preloaded with various fitness and wellness trackers so that you can count your steps, monitor your calories, sleep, heart rate, stress tracking, hydration tracking, and more¹.
With the updated version of pre-installed Sports apps, this smartwatch allows you to track your training activities, including running, cycling, track run, yoga, and breathwork. You can also check your body’s fitness age, race predictors, and recovery time on this smartwatch.
Determine how much energy you have at any time as this smartwatch supplies a Body Battery energy monitor. Through this feature, you can conveniently plan your day while optimising your routines.
Along with its different fitness and wellness tracking characteristics, the Garmin Forerunner 55 enables women users to track their menstrual cycles or pregnancy.
When the smartwatch’s sensors detect incidents, the Safety and Tracking activates. The watch then sends an automated message to your emergency contacts, including your GPS location, via its companion app (download required) on your smart device².
It has a 50-metre (5 ATM) water rating body to accommodate your water sports activities. It can withstand splashes, showers, and is suitable to use for pool swimming.
Garmin engineered the Forerunner 55 to have a sports-ready structure for every user. It uses a silicone sports band for ultimate comfort, while its large 1.04-inch display incorporates a durable chemically strengthened glass.
The Garmin Forerunner 55’s band size fits wrists with a circumference of 126-203mm.

¹ See Garmin.com/ataccuracy.

² Requires Garmin Connect™ app and Connect IQ™ app loaded on compatible smartphone paired to Forerunner 55; see Garmin.com/ble.

Specifications

All Product Details

Brand	Garmin
Product Type	Smart Watches
Model Number	010-02562-00

Dimensions

Product Width	4.2 cm
Product Depth	1.2 cm
Product Height	4.2 cm
Product Weight	0.04 kg

Warranty

Manufacturers	12 Months

Reviews

Expert Reviews

Customer Reviews

Garmin Forerunner 55 Smartwatch - Black (42mm Case, GPS, Bluetooth) is rated 4.2 out of 5 by 1038.

Rated 4 out of 5 by ka808 from Love the data it gathers - battery issues tho I bought this product 2 years ago. Over the 2 years, I have loved the features, I love the GPS tracking, and the ability to create workouts, the half marathon plans it provides. I did buy this product for the battery life, as I wanted to eventually run a full marathon. Now that I am finally beginning my first full marathon training, I have found my watch is having difficulty connecting to my phone during the run, and the battery is not as good, so it is struggling to not die during a 6+ mile run. It is disappointing. Overall, this watch has been fantastic these past 2 years and has tracked well my first 3 half-marathons and multiple other runs.

Date published: 2024-07-23

Rated 5 out of 5 by TacoTana86 from Great Watch for Beginners and Experienced Runners This is a great watch for both beginner runners and experienced runners looking for basic feature and ease of use! It’s functional and has all the features I’d want in a running watch. I’m used to the Fenix series so I was worried this would be a step down from that but I’m learning I don’t really need all those extra features. It’s got the body battery energy monitor that I like and the advanced running features that the Fenix had without having too much extra stuff. The battery life is pretty dang good! Only complaint would be there’s no strength training feature so I can’t track my strength workouts. Other than that it’s a perfect watch!

Date published: 2023-04-24

Rated 5 out of 5 by NewRunner from If you want to be healthy-Get One! I bought my Garmin Forerunner 55 on January 11, 2022. I love it! The features are so much better than the Fitbit I was wearing before. As a new runner I needed to monitor my miles and speed. not just steps. This device has so much more. It talks to My Fitness Pal so my calorie count is monitored as well. I am still learning how to use it, such as the mapping features, but it has seemed pretty easy so far (I’m 67, so electronics can be hard for me to figure out sometimes). Using the metrics of my Garmin I have lost 4 pounds so far, and today is only 2 weeks and 3 days since my purchase (I’m close to goal weight, CW: 153; GW: 135-140). Get one!

Date published: 2022-01-28

Rated 5 out of 5 by ney_ney1978 from Pretty good so far I have loved Garmin for years! I've had forerunners since the 15. With each one there has been updates and changes. The 55 is no different. I went with the aqua since it's my favorite color! I feel like it fits better on my arm with the removable bands instead of the slightly curved band of my 45. It does everything I need, tracking steps, heartrate, and everything else. I love the breath work option, and stair step option. I'm working on getting a better fitness age and volmax. It seems on this one though that the buttons have a more springy feel to them, but works good. Customer service at garmin is always accommodating and helpful.

Date published: 2021-10-02

Rated 1 out of 5 by KeBe from Underwhelming I received this watch as an work anniversary gift. I was excited to be able to see what Garmin was all about but was let down. I have owned Samsung smart watches, Citizen Smart watches and figured that this watch would be right inline with those. I guess I had an unreal expectation due to the quality of my previous watches. The watch is really basic, lacks functionality and does not have the same features that other smart watches have. It is hard to navigate the apps. It feels like an old school game boy system, honestly. I would say this is a great introduction to smart watches, but if you have experience with other brands I would stay away.

Date published: 2024-08-22

Rated 5 out of 5 by Jenifer G from Replacing Fitbit, getting used to I've always been a fan of Fitbit but after Google bought it and changed things, I swore I wouldn't buy another once my current one died. I tried a Garmin once and fought it every step of the way, preferring the Fitbit app and functionality. However, I bit the bullet and went Garmin again out of principal. Things have changed a lot since the last time I tried one and I like it much better this time around. I like the "Battery" charging instead of Sleep Score. This one is not a touch screen, it has buttons to click and I'm getting used to that after having a touch screen watch. The band is very feather light. Overall, I think I'm going to like this watch.

Date published: 2025-09-16

Rated 4 out of 5 by Megan S from Where as the app was not as intuitive as my Fitbit was (I used Fitbit for roughly 10 years), now that I have had this tracker for a few months I would highly recommend it. I chose this one to mainly track walks, rucks, and workouts (maybe running if I get that far) and I would say that so far one of my favorite features is the stress detector and the body battery to help track energy and personal stressors. I also really like that it is NOT a touch screen! I actually appreciate the buttons to move through the options and data. Now that I'm used to how the app is set up, I would say that I like it a lot better than my previous Fitbit trackers and the Fitbit app.

Date published: 2025-07-05

Rated 3 out of 5 by Lboogity from Liked it for the first week It worked really well for the first week I had it. Now I'm having heart rate and calorie burn ratio inaccurate for a couple weeks wasting chunks of time and leading to overexercise to get stats. Can't seem to fix it. Still having to wear a Fitbit on other wrist for back up. Missing the amoled display. I can barely see the screen on this unless I put bright ness on 100. Kinda mad at it cuz I was hoping it would solve the heart rate issues I've had with my other Garmin watches. They all seem to think that while jumping around like and idiot and despite the fact that I take medicine for ADHD my heart rate is 42. Um nooooo.

Date published: 2025-06-24

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What's in the box

Garmin Forerunner 55
Power/data Cable
Documentation

Questions & Answers

can it be linked to a computer instead of a phone

Asked by: humaniousform

Yes. The Garmin Forerunner 55 can be connected to a computer instead of a phone by using a USB cable and Garmin’s free Garmin Express software on a Windows PC or Mac. This lets you sync activities, upload data to Garmin Connect (via web), update the watch, and manage workouts without needing a smartphone, although phone-only features like notifications won’t be available.