The Forerunner 255 is a fitness smartwatch that features HRV status, up to 14 days of battery life, daily suggested workouts, and much more. It has a Morning report summarises your sleep, HRV status and daily workout suggestion in one place as soon as you wake up.
You can view your entire week of daily suggested workouts, which adapt after every run to match your performance and recovery and it evaluates your current training status to indicate if you’re undertraining or overdoing it; offers additional performance monitoring features, including recovery time after your workouts,
There’s even the ability to 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.
There’s even the ability to pay contactless through Garmin Pay so you can leave your cards and phone at home. Garmin even gives you free adaptive training plans from Garmin Coach for a 5K, 10K and half-marathon, or create your own custom workouts in the Garmin Connect smartphone app.
For those not keen on splashing out, there’s the Garmin Forerunner 55 at a more wallet-friendly £125 on Amazon, which could offer a less premium but more comprehensive option for the average user.