Forerunner 55, GPS Running Watch with Daily Suggested Workouts, Up to 2 Weeks of Battery Life, Black - 010-02562-00 | Daily Suggested Workouts, Up to 2 Weeks of Life

This watch really has all you need. I was a Polar lover before my switch to Garmin and it's certainly an upgrade, even at what they're calling an 'entry level' running watch. Here's what I love about it: 1. 24/7 wrist based heart rate monitoring. Very accurate during inactive and active periods. 2. 1 week battery life with all systems on GO. I haven't stress tested it with multiple runs but so far I'm reasonably happy with the battery. It's connected to my phone so I'm receiving notifications often and my heart rate is constantly monitored. 3. Accurate GPS tracking, with 3 options depending on your situation and demands on accuracy. 4. Great sleep tracking. You get a lot of great insights that can be used to make adjustments, improve sleep and optimize recovery. 5. Body battery is an interesting feature that allows you to identify when you're fully charged and ready to go and when you're drained and need to rest. 6. VO2 max and race predictor are great features that allow you to see when you are with your fitness and at your current levels of fitness the expected race times you'd likely hit. 7. Fitness age is an eye opening feature that determines your age based on your fitness and body weight. Gave me a harsh reality check! 8. Lightweight and extremely comfortable to wear! You won't even remember it's on your wrist. The watch has more features, but for me all the above is what I depend on and thoroughly enjoy! For it's price point I say it's absolute value for me. I'm very happy with my purchase.

I bought this watch to replace my Forerunner 35 (we had 6 great years together). It took a little time & a few youtube videos to get the settings how I wanted them. Overall, I am really happy with functionality and information available with this watch.

My absolute favorite running watch (I upgraded from a different Garmin). The functions (button controls on the side of the watch) may take a little time to learn, but it's not difficult. The GPS is extremely accurate and all of the information from the watch syncs quickly to the Garmin App. I've worn it in all kinds of weather and different types of races and have never had a problem. Pretty strong battery life, too, but out of habit, I do charge it every night. Looks nice and the adjustable band ensures a perfect fit! Really great running watch, and I know I'm not even taking advantage of everything it offers yet.

nothing fancy. Good solid watch with all the info your average runner needs. Distance, mileage, speed, steps, heart rate, altitude climbed/dropped, and other info. you can keep a log of each of your activities; running, walking, biking, trails etc. etc. As an added bonus my watch displays phone calls and texts. I'm sure the activity display can be customized but I've not felt the need to change what's there. The watch face display can be changed to meet your likes. I get about two weeks battery life while using the gps for an hour or so each morning and maybe another hour or two on the weekends,

I've had this watch for 10 months, and I'm ready for a better watch. This watch isn't all bad though. If you're looking for a cheaper option for running watches this is a pretty good choice, as long as your milage is reasonable. Obviously of you're running more mileage you're charging your watch more often. If I don't use the watch for anything but "being a watch" and heart rate monitoring I could get a couple weeks between charges. The gps seems pretty accurate, I have routes that I usually run and the watch is pretty close in marking miles in about the same spot, I'd say within .05 of a mile, worse case. I'd say this watch is more geared towards cardio workouts, I use the "other" while I'm weight lifting and it's not quite the right option, but theres no other options for this watch. It also does not have the ability to do elevation. Any elevation in your run is gps based i think. The watch itself is very durable, I only have the tiniest chip in the top of the screen, I wear this watch all the time, except while showering. The screen has minimal scratching. I've bought the screen covers for this watch before, but no brand I've ever bought was the exact correct size and there was always a small edge pulled up that would get dirt under it and it would eventually fall off. I really like that the screen is NOT touch screen and only the buttons control it. I don't have to worry about accidentally bumping something during a work out. I'm not sure how accurate the HR is, I caveat that I wear my watch on the inside of my wrist and I have dark tattooing there that could cause some problems. But I've also worn it on the opposite side of my wrist and had similar readings. You also can't wear this watch tight against the skin, then it won't read a HR at all. I've seen this happen in work outs where there a missing HR chunks of time. The sleep monitoring is NOT reliable. Like at all. Basically all it knows it that your heart rate is lowering and it's night time. I can be sitting still reading before bed and it counts all that time as sleep. So where I might have actually slept midnight to 630, my watch started counting sleep at 10. So I says I've gotten more sleep. Therefore effecting your "body battery" rate. The charger is weird. It takes a special charger, which I've bought another one for my travel bag. And if the watch charging interface gets dirty it makes charging finicky. The phone finder is really useful and I do like the period tracker.

I have used the forerunner 55 watch for over a year now and I have been very pleased. It’s got most of the features that you would want and nothing too flashy or useless. The big selling point for me was the 2 week battery life and I’m happy to say that it has held up pretty well. I use this to track my sleep, mountain biking, gym workouts, and any other random I activity I get into. I went down the rabbit hole of all the fancier watches they have and realized I don’t need them. Sure it would be nice to have a touch screen, but do I really need it? Having a touch screen instead of 2 week battery life is not something I would swap out. And I prefer the buttons over a touchscreen because it just works better for me anyway. I like the size of it cause it’s on the smaller side and the buttons are placed well and useful. Overall, this watch has been great and I probably will stick to the forerunner series when I need a new watch in a couple more years. If you are getting a watch for a specific activity, maybe look at one of the more niche watches but if you just need a good all around watch for a moderately active lifestyle, this might be just what you need.

Great watch for beginner runners. Tracks your pace, heart rate, distance, and calories. I previously had a FitBit with a touch screen, so it took a bit to get used to the screen and buttons, but I really like it. Might be a little big for me but I have small wrists. Screen is easy to see, I like that it's always on. Easy to pair to Samsung devices.

First thing to know, this is not a smart watch. Next, it has quite a learning curve and I think I've almost gotten to the top. I set my activities as walking and "other" because Garmin doesn't have racquet sports included. I've tried creating that category but it doesn't seem to work. One of the watch faces shows running distance and even though I removed running as an activity and added walking it still shows running. At the very least, it should show steps. Garmin you have a glitch. I changed to another watch face. I use Strava on my iPhone and my Garmin watch when I work out. My iPhone picks up my GPS immediately but Garmin takes a while. They both show I workout for the same amount of time but Garmin shows I walked a shorter distance and my min/mile are higher even though I start them both within three seconds of each other. Of course, I use the Strava numbers for my trends. After getting a GPS signal and starting my watch, it will pause so I have to stop it to start it again. Today, it paused a second time. I made sure I hit the button only once each time and it still pauses immediately after start. If I hadn't been paying attention, my whole workout session wouldn't have been recorded. Of course, this started after the return window had closed. The Body Battery is a cool concept but doesn't work because it's based on the sleep metric which is a dismal failure. One morning i raised my wrist and turned on the watch light to see the time, 4:08, and the watch not only didn't show me awake but in a deep sleep. Recently, I was in the middle of a dream answering the phone, it was my watch buzzing on my wrist, it showed I was in a light sleep. (I have my watch set with an alert for a low heart rate, all other notifications are turned off. When I turned the watch light on, I was bleary eyed, I saw a 17 as the beginning of a line and that was it. Later, I looked at Garmin Connect (software app) and my HR was no where near the threshold.) This morning I was dreaming in color (REM sleep) right before I woke up and Garmin recorded it as a light sleep. I'm not going to be sleeping with my watch anymore. I have a 20 year old Polar heart rate monitor with a chest strap. Garmin is half a step above that, there's no chest strap. You still have to push buttons and the buttons have multiple functions. The Garmin will tell me what zone my workout was in, my VO2 max, and my steps (we already know steps is recorded low, see above). I'm not sure how reliable any of it is since the zones are based on HR. One of my toughest hills to climb which is my maximum HR for my session, showed my HR as if I were on a flat surface. Again, this happened after my return window closed. The connection to charge is really weird. It's in contact with your skin all of the time so can get sweat and gunk in it. It seems like it should be on the side or at least covered. Garmin says to rinse it with water but it still seems there is a design issue. The face is a little big for my arm and actually made my arm tender over my bones. I moved the watch face to my inner wrist and it seems to record fine and no more pain. The text is already small with a large watch face so making a smaller watch face would make the text unreadable. So if steps, sleep, body battery, HR, and zones are unreliable what's the point? I can get the same information with my old Polar watch and Strava app. I thought as a backup I could give this to my husband to replace his old Garmin and chest strap and get an Apple watch. Well, that's not going to work because my watch is "aqua" and Apple watch 9 dropped the blood oxygen metric due to patent infringement. I very much regret not sending this back.

My first smart watch was Huawei. Then comes this. For the price I'm paying it doesn't have touch screen. Button toggling needs time to learn. Gave it up.

Very happy with this watch. Looks good, easy to use, syncs nicely with app, helps track all the essentials.

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Muy bueno. Me ha funcionado excelente!

I had a sports watch and polar chest strap monitor 25 years ago for Concept 2 rower training. Technology has improved enormously since then. I chose the Garmin Forerunner 55 because I wanted simplicity as well as multi-functionality. It fulfils both needs. Above all the Garmin sports watch is accurate. I am now 71 and have just started training prep for another C25K with my daughter - hence the need for an accurate heart rate monitor. The things I like about the watch and app follow plus some suggested tweaks. On the positive side customisable heart rate zones are useful, and it is easy to develop warm up, walk, run, repeat x8 workouts, which can then be modified in subsequent weeks. However, I had to use AI to pose a dozen or so technical questions about how to set up specific procedures and to analyse and interpret some of the performance data that the Garmin produces. The written Garmin instructions in multiple languages don’t touch the sides of what the app can do hence using Google Gemini to pose detailed questions. Another user tip - the Garmin app can be integrated with the Chronometer app which monitors food and exercise expenditure. This combination of apps is a really sophisticated tool to record data, if you are of a scientific disposition. For example, if your Adjusted Baseline Activity hits zero, it indicates that your Garmin has accounted for every metabolic "tick" above your resting BMR. The wider screen of an Apple Mac is much more accessible to see all the post exercise Garmin data. The IPAD version of the Garmin app is actually a scaled mobile app and it is difficult to escape from a page as the menus are obscured. A workaround is to reset your IPad display to ‘more space’, but I would recommend using a laptop and the Garmin website which have no technical issues.