Overview
Feature rich GPS running watch to track your stats and chase your fitness goals.
Features
- Easy-to-use GPS running smartwatch with wrist-based heart rate suitable for everyday wear
- 42mm case size, suitable for wrists with a circumference of 126-203 mm
- Includes a comprehensive range of in-built sport apps and activity profiles
- Standard features include health & wellness monitoring, activity tracking and training analysis
- Includes activity profiles for running, cycling, swimming and outdoor recreation
- Garmin Coach for adaptive training plans to help you reach your goals
- Daily suggested workouts, PacePro technology, recovery advisor, cadence alerts
- Multi GNSS support - GPS, GLONASS and Galileo - to get accurate stats
- Battery life: up to 2 weeks in smartwatch mode, 20 hours in GPS mode
- Smart notifications: texts, emails, alerts and social media
- Syncs with Garmin Connect, the online community for uploading, sharing and competing
- Safety and tracking features to let others know where you are
- Customisable watch faces using Connect IQ store
Technical Specification
| Garmin Garmin Forerunner 55 Aqua | Product Code: 010-02562-12 |
General | |
| Lens material | Chemically strengthened glass |
| Quick release bands | Yes (20 mm, Industry standard) |
| Strap material | Silicone |
| Physical size | 42 x 42 x 11.6 mm Fits wrists with a circumference of 126-203 mm |
| Colour display | yes |
| Display size | 1.04? (26.3 mm) diameter |
| Display resolution | 208 x 208 pixels |
| Display type | Sunlight-visible, transflective memory-in-pixel (MIP) |
| Weight | 37 g |
| Battery life | Smartwatch mode: Up to 2 weeks GPS mode: Up to 20 hours |
| Water rating | 5 ATM |
| Memory/history | 200 hours of activity data |
Clock features | |
| Time/date | yes |
| GPS time sync | yes |
| Automatic daylight saving time | yes |
| Alarm clock | yes |
| Timer | yes |
| Stopwatch | yes |
| Sunrise/sunset times | yes |
Health monitoring | |
| Wrist-based heart rate (constant, every second) | yes |
| Daily Resting Heart Rate | yes |
| Abnormal Heart Rate Alerts | Yes (high and low) |
| Respiration rate (24x7) | yes |
| Fitness age | yes |
| Body Battery Energy Monitor | yes |
| All-day stress tracking | yes |
| Relaxation reminders | yes |
| Relaxation breathing timer | yes |
| Sleep | Yes (Advanced) |
| Hydration | Yes (in Garmin Connect and optional Connect IQ widget) |
| Women's Health | yes |
Sensors | |
| GPS | yes |
| GLONASS | yes |
| Galileo | yes |
| Garmin Elevatewrist heart rate monitor | yes |
| Accelerometer | yes |
Daily smart features | |
| Connectivity | Bluetooth, ANT+ |
| Connect IQ (downloadable watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps) | yes |
| Smart Notifications | yes |
| Calendar | yes |
| Weather | yes |
| Controls smartphone music | yes |
| Find my phone | yes |
| Find my watch | yes |
| Smartphone compatibility | iPhone, Android |
| Compatible with Garmin ConnectMobile | yes |
Safety and Tracking Features | |
| LiveTrack | yes |
| Live Event Sharing | Android Only |
| Incident Detection during select activities | yes |
| Assistance | yes |
Activity tracking features | |
| Step counter | yes |
| Move bar (displays on device after a period of inactivity; walk for a couple of minutes to reset it) | yes |
| Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal) | yes |
| Calories burned | yes |
| Distance travelled | yes |
| Intensity minutes | yes |
| TrueUp | yes |
| Move IQ | yes |
Fitness equipment/gym | |
| Available gym activity profiles | Cardio and Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, HIIT, Pilates, Yoga |
Training, planning and analysis features | |
| HR zones | yes |
| HR alerts | yes |
| HR calories | yes |
| Recovery time | yes |
| Auto max HR | yes |
| HR broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+to paired devices) | yes |
| Respiration rate (during exercise) | Yoga and breathwork only |
| GPS speed and distance | yes |
| Customisable screen(s) | yes |
| Customisable activity profiles | yes |
| Auto Pause | yes |
| Interval training | yes |
| Advanced workouts | yes |
| Downloadable training plans | yes |
| Auto Lap | yes |
| Manual lap | yes |
| Configurable lap alerts | yes |
| VO2 Max (Run) | yes |
| Improved recovery time | Yes (limited) |
| Daily suggested workouts | Yes (limited) |
| Audio prompts | yes |
| Finish time | yes |
| Touch and/or button lock | yes |
| Activity history on watch | yes |
| Physio TrueUp | yes |
Running features | |
| Available run profiles | Running, Treadmill Running, Track Running, Indoor Track Running, Virtual Running |
| GPS-based distance, time and pace | yes |
| Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute) | yes |
| PacePro Pacing Strategies | yes |
| Run workouts | yes |
| Race predictor | yes |
| Foot pod capable | yes |
Outdoor recreation | |
| Area calculation | Yes (via Connect IQ) |
| Hunt/fish calendar | Yes (via Connect IQ) |
| Sun and moon information | Yes (via Connect IQ) |
Cycling features | |
| Alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goals including time, distance, heart rate or calories) | yes |
| Available cycling profiles | Biking, Indoor Biking |
| Speed and cadence sensor support (w/sensor) | yes |
Swimming Features | |
| Available swim profiles | Pool Swimming |
| Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories) | yes |
| Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly) (pool swim only) | yes |
| Drill logging (pool swim only) | yes |
| Basic rest timer (up from 0) (pool swim only) | yes |
| "Repeat on" rest timer (pool swim only) | yes |
| Auto rest (pool swim only) | yes |
| Time and distance alerts | yes |
| Countdown start | yes |
| Underwater wrist-based heart rate | yes |
Kid activity tracking features | |
| Toe-to-Toe Challenges app | Yes (optional Connect IQ Toe-to-Toe Challenges app) |
Customer Reviews
Customer Reviews for the Garmin Forerunner 55 Aqua.










