Garmin Forerunner 955 Solar Black

From the moment you wake up, get a readiness score based on your sleep quality, recovery, training load and more, so you can determine whether it’s a good day to go hard — or take it easy.

Receive an overview of your sleep, recovery and training outlook as soon as you wake up — alongside HRV status, training readiness and weather. You can even customise your report to show what you want to see.

Gain a deeper understanding of your overall health, training and recovery through heart rate variability while you sleep, based on technology developed by Garmin's Firstbeat Analytics™ team.

Get ready for your next race, including marathons, with training tips, personalised daily suggested workouts and completion time predictions. Just enter your race and we’ll build a plan that’ll help you meet your goals.

View your entire week of daily suggested workouts, which adapt after every run to match your performance and recovery as well as the races coming up in your Garmin Connect™ smartphone app calendar.

Free adaptive training plans include 5K, 10K and half-marathon programmes, featuring guidance from expert coaches that adapt to you and your goals.

Switch between sports with one press by using built-in profiles for triathlons, duathlons, brick workouts and swimruns. Or, create your own custom multisport profiles.

This smartwatch measures crucial running metrics such as cadence, stride length, ground contact time and more.

Get a continuous measurement on your wrist of how much power you’re applying to the road as you run when using a Running Dynamics Pod or HRM-Pro™ heart rate monitor.

This feature measures your ability to sustain prolonged efforts and combines training data from all of your athletic pursuits to help you understand how training impacts your overall endurance. This dynamic measurement uses your VO2 max, short-term/long-term training loads and other factors to gauge your fitness progress beyond just VO2 max.

This feature measures your capability for running uphill and evaluates your progress over time based on your VO2 max and training history. It measures your running strength on steep ascents and running endurance on long ascents, and it provides a score based on your performance over time.

Use this data to track and manage your exertion — and help avoid overexerting at the start of your run or bike.

When using a Running Dynamics Pod or HRM-Pro heart rate monitor, the Forerunner 955 running watch measures crucial running metrics such as cadence, stride length, ground contact time and balance, and more.

Using new indicators such as HRV status, your recent exercise history and performance, get an easy insight into your overall effort — and whether you’re training productively, peaking or strained.

Compare the intensity of your recent workouts to the optimal range to help improve your fitness and see your training history.

See how your workouts influence your endurance, speed and power with aerobic and anaerobic training effect feedback.

The PacePro feature helps keep you on pace with grade-adjusted guidance as you run a course.

Know how long to recover before your next high-effort workout based on your latest training as well as overall stress, sleep and daily activities outside of workouts.

Train smarter with VO2 Max, an indicator of how you can expect to perform. This metric even accounts for changes in performance that could be caused by heat or altitude.

While you run, get an analysis of your pace, heart rate and heart rate variability for a real-time assessment of your current ability to perform.

Get your indoor and outdoor training plans from the Garmin Connect™ app, or sync seamlessly to your Forerunner running watch from other platforms including TrainingPeaks® and TrainerRoad.

Switch up your workouts with activity profiles for cycling, triathlon, pool and open-water swimming, track running and more. For races and brick workouts, switch sports with a single button press.

Ready for some speedwork? Input your lane on the built-in track run activity to record accurate lap distances and see your distances in metres.

Based on your running history and overall fitness level, get an estimate of what your pace could be for a 5K, 10K — or even a marathon. Plus, trend data highlights your training’s impact over time.

View your entire week of daily suggested cycling workouts directly on your smartwatch — which adapt to match your performance and the demands of upcoming events in your Garmin Connect^™ smartphone app calendar.

Multi-band GNSS with SatIQ technology ensures the best positioning accuracy in any environment while also optimising the device’s battery life.

Whether you’re running on city streets or riding densely covered trails, Forerunner 955 running watch provides full-colour, built-in mapping to keep you on track.

Follow a course with help from turn-by-turn directions, which let you know ahead of time when the next turn is coming.

With Trendline^™ popularity routing, it’s easy to find the best local paths. Just enter a desired distance, and Forerunner 955 running watch will suggest courses that bring you back to your starting point.

Get at-a-glance awareness for points of interest along the course. In addition, view performance metrics, split times and distance/elevation — plus a summary of key course points coming up.

Use ClimbPro ascent planner on downloaded courses to see real-time information on your current and upcoming climbs, including gradient, distance and elevation gain.

If you feel unsafe or if your watch senses that an incident occurred, Assistance and incident detection features¹ send your location to emergency contacts. Incident detection is enabled by default for select activity profiles only.

Create or find existing courses in the Garmin Connect app, so you’ll never run out of places to run. Or plan one on other platforms such as Strava and Komoot, then automatically sync them to your Forerunner smartwatch.

This running watch constantly samples your heart rate² with our latest-generation heart rate sensor and will alert you if it stays too high or too low while you’re at rest. It also helps gauge how hard you work during activities — even while swimming.

Understand how your body is recovering — and get ready for training — with our improved sleep monitoring feature. After waking up, you’ll receive a sleep score, as well as breakdown of your sleep stages, Pulse Ox³ and respiration, alongside detailed insights for improved sleep quality.

This wrist-based Pulse Ox sensor³ monitors blood oxygen saturation levels to support advanced sleep monitoring and altitude acclimation.

Use the Garmin Connect app to track your menstrual cycle or pregnancy. Log symptoms, get exercise and nutrition education, and more. Even see and log details on your wrist with the Women's Health Tracking app.

Log a 2-minute session to record key stats, including heart rate², heart rate variability, Pulse Ox³, respiration and stress. Then generate a report with those stats via the Garmin Connect^™ app on your compatible smartphone to share.

See your energy levels throughout the day so you’ll know when your body is charged up and ready for activity or drained and needing to recharge with restful sleep. and get even more details and personal insights on how sleep, naps, daily activities and high stress specifically impact your energy activity.

Automatically track or log your naps to see how they benefit your body and to check the recommended time and duration they should be.

Download up to 500 songs plus playlists from your Spotify^®, Deezer or Amazon music accounts (subscription may be required).

Breeze through checkout lines with Garmin Pay contactless payments⁴ through participating providers.

Receive emails, texts and alerts right on your watch when paired with your Apple® or Android™ smartphone. You can even respond to texts if you have an Android phone.

Control your Tacx^® Smart trainer via ANT+^® technology for course simulation, automatic resistance changes and workout prompts when you use courses or workouts from your watch.

See your health and fitness information, connect and compete with friends, sign up for challenges to earn badges and more — all in one free, zero-subscription app.

Add watch faces, data fields and apps to your paired watch from the Connect IQ Store app downloaded on your compatible smartphone.