Garmin Forerunner 255S Music
Features
Provide a soundtrack for your run and gain insights into your training with the Garmin Forerunner 255S Music.
This GPS running watch is light on your wrist, but full of training and recovery features to help you achieve your goals. The Forerunner 255S Music features easy-to-use buttons and a silicone band in a smaller package than the Forerunner 255 Music, so that it fits and performs perfectly on your wrist for those sweaty workouts. This watch accesses multiple global navigation satellite systems to track your runs, walks, bikes, swims and more. It has over 30 different activity profiles that it can track, which now includes triathlons.
You can listen to music, audiobooks, podcasts and more on your run. The Forerunner 255S Music allows you to download up to 500 songs, plus playlists from your Spotify, Deezer or Amazon Music accounts (subscription may be required).
You can track your distance, pace, elevation, heart rate and more for each run to help you train better. Not only can you create workouts and send them to your watch, but the Forerunner 255S Music has daily suggested workouts and course details on its race widget to help you train your best. Plus, Garmin improved the battery life of the Forerunner 255S Music, so you can train up to 26 hours in GPS mode (up to 5.5 hours with music) or wear it for up to 12 days in smartwatch mode before needing to recharge.
Stay safe on your runs, thanks to LiveTrack, which lets friends and family follow your real-time location and view your pre-planned course. Plus, If you feel unsafe or if your watch senses that an incident occurred, the Assistance and incident detection features send your location to emergency contacts.
The Garmin Forerunner 255S Music is great to help you maintain a healthy lifestyle—it tracks your steps, stress level, heart rate, sleep and more, so you know how your body is moving and recovering throughout the day. Plus, you can 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, so you can leave your phone on the charger and enjoy life without worrying about missing an important text or phone call.
The Garmin Forerunner 255S Music will help you stay motivated during your run with music and training metrics.
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Tech Specs | Garmin Forerunner 255S Music |
Dimensions | 41 x 41 x 12.4 (mm), display is 1.1" (27.5mm) diameter |
Weight | 39 g |
Battery Life |
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Water Rating | 5 ATM; waterproof |
Heart Rate Monitor | Yes; wrist-based monitor |
Lens | Corning® Gorilla® Glass 3 |
Smartphone Compatibility | Yes (iPhone, Android); Smart notifications |
Band Size | 18mm with quick release straps |
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 255S 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 255S Music. Garmin added some of the features from the Forerunner 745 and 945 to the Forerunner 255S, 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 255S 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 26 hours in GPS-Only GNSS mode and 12 days in smartwatch mode.
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Reviews
Would not pair
unfortunately it wouldn't pair correctly to my phone. I had to return it and will re-order
Not worth the money
Overall it works fine with the exception of music. Being that the product has music in the name very disappointed with not being able to listen to music without it constantly skipping. Garmin tech support very unhelpful besides saying try some other headphones. Not even able to publish a list of supported headphones. I wouldn't mind buying a new pair of headphones if I knew what I could pick from. All they say is the bluetooth antenna is small because it's a watch and I need bigger headphones. Also I keep having to manually update music when it expires. Why can't you do that automatically?
Loving my Garmin
I love my new Garmin 255S Music. It has all the functionality that I need. My only wish is that it was a bit more intuitive. However the staff at Princeton's Fleet Feet were absolutely amazing especially after I ordered the wrong size. they quickly helped me get the product I needed and I didn't miss a beat during my runs. Love this store.