Garmin Forerunner 255 Music

Heath and Wellness Features

• Monitor respiration, Pulse Ox, stress, fitness age, stress monitoring, advanced sleep (with sleep stages), relaxation breathing timer and 24/7 heart rate (with user-configurable alerts for high or low readings).
• Wrist-based heart rate monitor that will give you alerts for abnormally high or low heart rates.
• Monitor activity throughout the day with step counting, calories burned, intensity minutes and more.
• Body Battery energy monitoring shows the body’s current energy level, which can help with scheduling workouts, big events and understanding when it is time to slow down.

Sport App Activities

• Includes built-in indoor sports apps for yoga, strength, HIIT, Pilates, cardio, elliptical training, stair stepping, floor climbing, indoor rowing, treadmill running, indoor track running, indoor biking and pool swimming.
• Includes built-in outdoor sports apps for hiking, skiing, snowboarding, XC skiing, stand up paddleboarding, rowing, running, track running, trail running, virtual running, ultra running, biking, mountain biking, eBiking, eMountain biking, triathlon, pool swimming and open water swimming.

Sensors

The Garmin Forerunner 255 Music includes GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, multi-frequency positioning, Garmin Elevate™ wrist heart rate monitors, barometric altimeter, compass, gyroscope, accelerometer, thermometer and Pulse Ox blood oxygen saturation monitor.

What’s New

There are many updates to the Garmin Forerunner 255 Music. Garmin added some of the features from the Forerunner 745 and 945 to the Forerunner 255 Music, including:

• Training status and benefit
• Training load
• Lactate threshold
• Daily suggested workouts
• Open and auto intervals
• RPE & Feel
• Improved recovery time
• Triathlon activity profile

Other improvements to the Forerunner 255 Music include:

• Morning report: Garmin provides a summary of your sleep, recovery and training outlook first thing in the morning with HRV status and weather.
• HRV status: Heart Rate Variability status is based on technology developed by the Firstbeat Analytics™ team that can help you gain insights on your recovery and performance.
• Race widget: Your Garmin can help you prepare for your goal race with training tips, personalized daily suggested workouts and time predictions for the race based on course details, weather and performance.
• Running power on watch: When using a Running Dynamics Pod or HRM-Pro™ monitor, you can get a continuous measurement on your wrist of how much power you’re applying to the road as you run, so you can manage your effort.
• Garmin Pay 2.0: Need a bottle of water on your run, but don’t have your wallet? No worries with Garmin Pay you can just pay for it with your watch.
• Dual-band GPS: Access multiple global navigation satellite systems and get access to multiple frequencies sent by navigation satellites for improved accuracy in areas where GNSS signals are reflected, weak or typically don't penetrate.
• Additional battery life: Up to 30 hours in GPS-Only GNSS mode and 14 days in smartwatch mode.