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

I’ve always used garmin watches. Love the size, shape appearance of the watch face. The band is comfortable also. So far the battery life is quite good. Display is great and to read. It’s a bit different than my last one, but easy to figure out the options.

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,

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.

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.

Good sports watch. Buttons work as expected. No touch screen means no unintended mistakes. Connects to my chest heart rate sensor via Ant+. Connects to Strava. Battery life is better than other watches (due to no touch screen, dimmer display), though as expected the marketing material is overzealous. I get maybe five days of battery life. I think the product details claim 14 days. I am giving a review at the four-month mark. Worked great so far but now the charging cable needs to be wiggled just right for the electrical contact to happen.

Perfect balance of price, quality and durability. Love that its so easy to log workouts and track my health and sleep all in one.

Excellent. So many valuable features. And scary accurate.

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.

Good service

As expected from the Garmin, pretty good especially the battery backup, i haven't charged yet, it came out of the box with 90%, i have been walking and running and other activities like breath, HIIT(high-intensity interval training), past 4 days i have not take it off this watch from my wrist, still battery 49%. i do own apple watch series 6 Nike Edition but need to charge every day for sure and if i ran more than 6K or 7K in day, it will drain pretty soon, thats why i took this and heart rate also very good, which similar to polar heart strap. finally it's a Sport watch not completely smart watch but it has some of the smart watch features, like getting notifications but in one way you can't give reply from the watch, just you can see.

What a great watch this grandkids loves it, they never take them off

O relógio é excelente, meu esposo adorou, só achei que a tela fosse maior, a borda em volta diminuiu o tamanho da tela.