Garmin Forerunner® 955 Solar GPS Multisport Smartwatch

Set a new best time – with the GARMIN Forerunner® 955 Solar!
With this high-quality GPS running and triathlon watch, you can train intensively and be optimally prepared for your next competition.
The solar-powered lens of the elegant multisport watch ensures an extra long battery life, pre-installed maps show you new routes and the practical music function provides you with a motivating soundtrack.
Thanks to new features such as training readiness, stamina and HRV measurement, as well as the familiar comprehensive training functions and physiological readings, you get all the data you need to make your training sessions more efficient.

HIGHLIGHTS
• Premium GPS running and triathlon watch with touch and button operation
• Integrated solar-powered lens for long battery life
• Less charging required through solar energy with a battery life of up to 20 days in smartwatch mode/up to 49 hours in GPS mode*
• Use the buttons or swipe through stats and maps on a new responsive touchscreen
• Pre-installed map material as well as high-precision route recording thanks to multi-frequency reception of global satellite systems (GPS, GLONASS, Galileo)
• Train better with great features including training readiness, stamina and interval training
• Optimal competition preparation with e.g. training status, morning report, competition widget
• Real-time running power directly on the watch (with compatible accessories)
• Daily training recommendations adapted to workouts and training phases
• Pay contact-free, listen to music without a smartphone and receive messages directly on the watch




FEATURES
• DESIGN: The GPS running and triathlon watch has a 1.3" always-on display. The touch and button operation makes this watch easy to use during sports and everyday life.
• SOLAR: Thanks to the solar-powered lens, the Forerunner 955 Solar manages up to 20 days* of battery life in smartwatch mode.
• TRAINING READINESS: Training readiness combines your acute training load with other health data such as recovery, sleep or stress and individually classifies your readiness for the next training session.
• STAMINA: This endurance function tracks your performance in real time and shows you the energy you have available during your physical activity. This helps you optimise your energy consumption during your activity and avoid premature exhaustion.
• MORNING REPORT: The Morning Report shows you a summary of your sleep, recovery time, training status and HRV status directly after waking up, provides you with your daily training recommendation and weather information.
• MAP MATERIAL: Preloaded TopoActive Europe map for perfect orientation and navigation.
• MULTI-FREQUENCY: High-precision route recording through multi-band reception of global satellite systems – even in narrow mountain valleys or urban canyons.
• SPORT APPS: More than 45 pre-installed sports apps add variety to your workout. Includes activity profiles for cycling, triathlon, swimming pool and open water swimming, track training and much more. You can switch between the different sports at the touch of a button.
• HFV STATUS: Record your heart rate variability during sleep and get exciting insights into your health, recovery and fitness thanks to a daily and 7-day average.
• COMPETITION WIDGET: Be prepared for your next competition! The widget provides you with training tips and daily training recommendations and estimates your target time based on route details, your fitness level and weather conditions.
• GARMIN COACH: Start an interactive training for your 5k, 10k or half marathon with instructions from experienced coaches. Get an adaptive training plan with lots of information based on your schedule, performance level and goals.
• DAILY TRAINING RECOMMENDATION: Receive daily training recommendations throughout the week, adjusting after each run based on your performance and recovery.
• SYNCHRONISE TRAINING PLANS: Get indoor and outdoor training plans from the Garmin Connect™ app or sync seamlessly with other platforms like TrainingPeaks® and TrainerRoad.
• TRAINING CONDITION: Your overall effort is analysed using new indicators such as HRV status, training log and performance.
• ACUTE LOAD: Compare the intensity of recent workouts with the optimal range to improve your fitness and training protocol.
• VO2 MAX: The value indicates your expected performance and the intelligent training even takes the possible effects of heat and altitude into account for your performance.
• TRAINING EFFECT: Find out how your training sessions effect your stamina, speed, and performance. Get feedback on aerobic and anaerobic TRAINING EFFECT.
• RECHARGE TIME Find out how long you should recover before your next intense workout. This calculation includes the last workout, total stress, sleep and daily activities completed in addition to workouts.
• GARMIN MUSIC: Save up to 2000 songs and listen to music from compatible streaming services like Spotify®, Deezer and Amazon Music (subscription required)
• SMART FEATURES: Get calls, messages, news or other notifications directly on your smartwatch. With compatible Android smartphones, you can even send replies with predefined text messages.
• GARMIN PAY: Simply pay contactlessly with your watch and enjoy the freedom of being on the move without cash. Enjoy the good feeling of being able to be spontaneous and independent everywhere and at any time.
• SECURITY & TRACKING: Predefined contacts receive a text message via the smartphone with your position when an accident is detected or the emergency button is pressed. The watch can also call a specific emergency number for you directly (in conjunction with a compatible smartphone).
• GARMIN CONNECT: The Garmin Connect™ app shows you all the information about your health, fitness and activity. Update your Garmin products, get insights, become part of the community and much more.
(Smartphone compatibility and system requirements at http://www.garmin.com/de-DE/ble)

Basic Features:
• Heart rate measurement on the wrist (Garmin Elevate™ technology)
• Preloaded activity profiles for your sports activities and leisure time
• Smart Notifications: Display of incoming calls, text messages and
e-mails (if connected to the smartphone via Bluetooth)
• Text response/reject phone call with text (Android™ only)
• Pace, time, distance and lap alarm, heart rate alarm and vibration alarm
• Music features (smartphone control and internal music storage for up to 2000 tracks)
• Find my Phone feature
• Integrated accelerometer
• Electronic compass
• Gyroscope
• Barometric altimeter
• Thermometer
• Remote control of optionally available Garmin VIRB action camera
• Watch (12- or 24-hour format)
• Calendar (day/date)
• GPS time synchronisation, automatic summer/winter time changeover
• Sunrise and sunset times
• Daily alarm clock function
• Adjustable energy saving mode
• Stop watch, timer
• Route navigation (track and waypoint navigation; including TracBack function)
• Display of points of interest (POI), also customised
• Graphical track display on map material
• Wide range of sports profiles: e.g. alpine skiing, snowboarding, triathlon, hiking, running, cycling, swimming and indoor training
• Auto page turner
• Weather alert (display of weather changes via the barometer)
• Sync music from Deezer, Spotify® and Amazon Music (subscription required)
• Garmin Pay™ – supports contactless NFC payments (more information as well as participating banks at www.garmin.com/en-GB/garminpay/banks/ )

Health monitoring functions:
• Wrist heart rate measurement (continuous; every second)
• Daily heart rate at rest
• Abnormal heart rate alarms (high and low)
• Breathing rate
• Pulse OX data for blood oxygen saturation (spot checks and optional all-day acclimatisation and sleep)
• Sport age
• Health Snapshot™ function (2-minute session to record relevant body data)
• Body Battery™ energy monitor
• All-day stress tracking
• Relaxation reminders/timers
• Sleep monitoring with Sleep Score (sleep score, sleep quality and insights)
• Hydration (in Garmin Connect™ and optionally in the Connect IQ™ widget)
• Women’s health tracking (in Garmin Connect™ and optionally in the Connect IQ™ widget)
• Health snapshot

Running features:
• Speed/Average speed
• Distance/lap distance
• Pace/average pace/lap pace etc.
• Running/walking mode
• RUNNING POWER: real-time running performance and running efficiency values (in conjunction with a compatible chest strap or the Running Dynamics Pod).
• VO2max calculation
• Recovery advisor
• Recovery check
• Race forecast, running time forecast
• Running efficiency values: cadence, stride length, ground contact time and balance (with a Running Dynamics Pod or compatible heart rate chest strap).
• Virtual Pacer (compares current pace with target pace)
• PACEPRO™ FUNCTION: The planning aid for your competition strategy.
• Accelerometer
• Personal records

Cycling features
• Cycling profiles (cycling, road bike, cyclocross, mountain bike, touring bike, e-bike, indoor biking, etc.)
• Time or distance alert
• Routes (race against previous activities)
• MTB grit and flow
• Lap and max. lap power (with power metre)
• Functional threshold power (FTP) (with compatible accessories)
• Compatible with Vector™
• Advanced Cycling Dynamics
• Compatible with Varia Vision™, Varia™ Radar, Varia™ Bike Lights
• Bike-specific VO2max calculation (requires optional HRM-Run or Tri heart rate chest strap as well as a compatible ANT+ power meter)
• Barometric altimeter (performance prediction through altitude information such as gradient and vertical speed)
• Power measurement with the optional Garmin Rally & Vector watt measurement systems or ANT+/Bluetooth smart-enabled, third-party devices
• Speed (to increase the accuracy, the optionally available speed sensor (prod. code 2292480) is recommended) and cadence (requires the optional cadence sensor (prod. code 2292703))
• Compatible with Indoor Smart Trainer (ANT+)

Swimming features:
• Swimming profiles (indoor pool swimming, open water swimming, swimming/running)
• Open water swim metrics (distance, pace, stroke count, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories burned)
• Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories burned)
• Swimming style recognition (crawl, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly)
• Practice logging
• Basic rest timer (up from 0)
• Recharge timer with “repeat on”
• Auto recharge
• Time and distance alerts
• Pace alerts (only for pool swimming)
• Countdown start
• Swim training
• Critical swimming speed
• Underwater wrist-based heart rate measurement
• Heart rate (real-time data during recovery phases, automatic download of heart rate data after swimming)


Activity Tracker features:
• Step counter
• Calories burned
• Sleep monitoring (monitors total sleep and periods of movement or restful sleep)
• Inactivity bar
• Automatic goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily goal)
• Floors climbed
• Distance travelled
• Intensity minutes
• Move IQ™: automatic activity detection
• TrueUp™: Grand value of all wearables (via Garmin Connect™)
• Fitness age (in app)
• Garmin Connect ™ Challenges (with optional Connect IQ app)

Outdoor recreation features
• Various outdoor recreation profiles (hiking, climbing, skiing, stand up paddling, rowing, kayaking, mapping, navigating, pickleball, padel, tracker, waypoint projection etc.)
• Pre-installed topographic, road and trail maps (expandable via map downloads)
• Point to point navigation
• Real-time track logging:
• Back to the start
• Tracback®
• Ultratrac mode (records track points less frequently to save energy)
• Around Me mode (makes OI and waypoints visible)
• POIs along the route
• Altitude graph
• Distance to goal
• Barometric trends indicator
• Climbpro™ ascent planner (shows gradient, distance and positive altitude difference of the next climbs)
• Auto climb for trail running
• Vertical speed
• Total ascent/descent
• Upcoming elevation profiles
• GPS coordinates
• Sight and go
• Area calculation (over Connect IQ™)
• Hunting and fishing calendar (over Connect IQ™)
• Waypoint projection
• Solar and lunar calendar
• Xero™ Locations
• Toe-to-Toe™ Challenges App (via Connect IQ™)

Gym and fitness studio features:
• Gym activity profiles (strength, hiit, cardio and cross-trainer training, stepper, stair climbing, indoor climbing, bouldering, rowing machine, Pilates and yoga)
• Cardio workouts
• Strength workouts
• Hiit training
• Yoga workouts
• Pilates workouts
• On-screen workout animations
• On-Screen workout muscle map
• Automatic rep counting

Golfing features:
• 42,000 golf courses worldwide pre-loaded
• Yardage to front, middle and back of green
• Yardage to layups/doglegs
• Shot distance measurement (calculates exact distance for shots from anywhere on the course)
• Digital scorecard
• Stat tracking (strokes, putts per round, greens and fairways hit)
• Garmin AutoShot™: Measures the shot distance and records shots automatically so that you can analyse them in your Garmin Connect™ account afterwards.
• Green view with manual pin position
• Hazards and course targets
• Automatic Courseview updates
• Handicap scoring
• Compatible with TruSwing™

Training, planning and analysis features:
• Heart rate zones, alarms and calories
• % HFR/HF Max.
• Recharge time
• Morning report
• Competition overview/widget
• HFV status
• Training readiness
• Heart rate transmission (sends heart rate data via ANT+ to connected devices)
• Respiration rate during exercise (with compatible accessories)
• GPS speed and distance via GPS
• Customisable screens
• Customisable activity profiles
• Auto Pause®
• Interval training
• Optimised intervals
• Advanced workouts
• Downloadable training plans
• Auto Lap®
• Manual lap
• Adjustable lap alarm
• Recovery timer
• Heat and high acclimatisation
• Vo2 Max
• Stamina data in real time
• Training condition and load, training load focus
• Training Effect (aerob/anaerob)
• Main benefits (training effect terms)
• Optimised recovery time
• Daily training suggestions (7 days)
• Adjustable alerts
• Audio announcements
• End time
• Virtual Partner/Virtual Racer™
• Automatic/manual multi-sport activities
• Route guidance
• Segments (Live, Garmin)
• Strava functions (beacon, live segments)
• Roundtrip routing creation (running, cycling)
• Trendline™ routing according to popularity
• Screen and button lock
• Hotkeys
• Auto Scroll
• Activity history on the watch
• Physio Trueup (synchronisation of physiological data)

Garmin Connect™ features:
• Synchronisation via Bluetooth Smart via smartphone or via cable with your PC/Mac (transmission of training sessions)
• Save, analyse, plan and share activities in social networks
• Live Tracking feature: show your friends or family your position in real time
• Grouptrack: track current position of your group members during your activity
• Dual-grid coordination
• Upload training data
• Training plans:
• Map view
• Daily overview
• Diagram overviews
• Online challenges
• Comment on the activities of other users

Garmin Connect IQ™ features:
• Create individual display designs, integration of smartphone photos as display background
• Download apps and widgets for additional features
• Customise data fields
• Connect IQ™ shop pre-installed

Technical details:
• Compatible with ANT+ and Bluetooth Smart (BLE) sensors
• Interfaces: ANT+ and Bluetooth Smart, WLAN
• Lithium-ion battery
• Display size: 1.3” (33 mm)
• Transflective MIP colour display (memory-in-pixel)
• Can be read easily in sunlight
• Resolution: 260 pixels (diameter)
• Operable via touchscreen and five buttons
• Waterproof rating: 5 ATM (for showering and swimming)
• Material of bezel: fibre-reinforced polymer
• Lens material: Corning® Gorilla® Glass DX (Power Glass™ with solar charging lens)
• Dimensions: approx. Ø 46.5 x 14.4 mm
• Material of the interchangeable wristband: silicone
• Wristband dimensions: 22 mm wide, for wrist circumference 130 to 220 mm
• Quick-fit system for fast, tool-free changing
• Weight: approx. 53 g

Battery life:
• Smartwatch mode: up to 15 days/20 days with solar charging*
• GPS mode: up to 42 hours/49 hours with solar charge**
• GPS mode + music: up to 8.5 hours (with multi-frequency)

In the box:
• Garmin Forerunner 955 Solar GPS Multisport Watch
• Charging/data cable
• Quick start manual

Attention:
A USB power supply unit is not included.


* Indications of battery life with solar charging assume watch is worn all day with 3 hours spent outside at 50,000 lux (a clear sunny day reaches up to 100,000 lux, a cloudy sky approx. 20,000 lux).
** The indications assume that the watch is worn outside at 50,000 lux (a clear sunny day reaches up to 100,000 lux, a cloudy sky approx. 20,000 lux).