- The Forerunner 55 is an easy-to-use GPS smartwatch designed for runner of all skill levels, supports everyone to start calling yourself a runner with one simple press of a button.
- Simple yet effective features! The Forerunner 55 offers fitness tracking together with training features that cover a lifestyle of every running enthusiast from pre, during to post training and encourages your healthy lifestyle.
- Garmin also announces three special events that accentuate its outlook as a brand that aims to leverage the health and quality life of people.
with its core concept Every Beat of Life, today unveiled the Forerunner 55, an easy-to-use GPS smartwatch for running enthusiasts of all levels to bring a fresh dimension to a running smartwatch. Under the concept of "EXERCISE IS THE BEST NUTRITION, RUNNING IS THE SIMPLEST WAY TO START," Garmin aims to repurpose running as a new habit, with innovation in the Forerunner 55 that could effectively help all leveled-runner accomplish every goal and encourage beginners to make a life-changing commitment to running. The running GPS smartwatch allows users to take their health and fitness tracking to the next level. With the simple press of a button will helps users to start all their activities, and track their time, distance, speed, pace, and heart rate data right from their wrists. The Forerunner 55 also offers dedicated features for running from the starting point, during the activity to the finish line, including detailed running data, Daily Suggested Workout, PacePro Lite, Track Run, Recovery Time, additional built-in sports apps, health-and-fitness tracking, and more.
In addition, alongside the latest product launching, Garmin also announced three special activities to promote the importance of the healthier lifestyle, including 1) #FR55Challenge – invites everyone to run 5 kilometers within 5 days, 2) #5.5RouteChallenge – encourage everyone to create creative contents through running with the Garmin Sports app, 3) FR55 Training Program – get a 55-day training program with Garmin Coach exclusively for the Forerunner 55 user.
In addition, alongside the latest product launching, Garmin also announced three special activities to promote the importance of the healthier lifestyle, including 1) #FR55Challenge – invites everyone to run 5 kilometers within 5 days, 2) #5.5RouteChallenge – encourage everyone to create creative contents through running with the Garmin Sports app, 3) FR55 Training Program – get a 55-day training program with Garmin Coach exclusively for the Forerunner 55 user.
Mr. Sky Chen, Director of Garmin Thailand, said, "According to the State of Running report, the largest study of race results with over 70 thousand race events, the 10-kilometer race has been more popular in Asia. It significantly confirms the fact that people still consider running as an activity for health care and fitness and the continuously increasing of new runners. So, of course, Garmin is well-aware of many runners who are anticipating an easy-to-use GPS running smartwatch. Therefore, our latest launch of the Forerunner 55 is Garmin's endeavoring response to these health enthusiasts and celebrate the growth of new runners. The Forerunner 55 is a simplified yet effective running smartwatch every leveled runner looking for. With its easy-to-use design and reasonable price, the running GPS smartwatch presents runners of all skill level an informative and digestible data that help runners, from beginner level to professional athletes, reach their running goals and encourage them to live a healthier lifestyle."
Garmin is determined to leverage and redefine running as a new habit for Thais. The company believes that the concept - EXERCISE IS THE BEST NUTRITION, RUNNING IS THE SIMPLEST WAY TO START - suits well with the innovation in the Forerunner 55 that help runners of all levels to focus more on the fundamentals of running and reach their goal with highlight intelligible features.
THE NEXT STRIDE FOR RUNNERS
With training features that cover a lifestyle of every running enthusiast from pre to post training.
HEALTH TRACKING FEATURES FOR 24 HOURS
Not only focus on running and sports, the Forerunner 55 is also designed to support health of people via offering health monitoring feature that can understand health condition in real-time throughout the day. Users can learn about their health-and-fitness progress from Garmin Firstbeat Analytics™, integrated with health tracking features to suggest users when to play or rest, such as Stress Tracking, and Body Battery™. These features give users a reliable health forecast that would be advantageous to their training performance. In addition, the running smartwatch also supports women health with features such as pregnancy tracking, menstrual cycle tracking, and more that allow users to collect their symptoms. For complete experience of running, the Forerunner 55 encourages users to express their inner athletes with customizable watch faces alongside other widgets and apps available to download on Connect IQ™ Store.
"Today, we also want to announce our special events to support our Garmin fans and health enthusiasts through our new product launch that people could witness its ability to elevate their health and fitness lifestyle to the next level. The special events include #FR55Challenge – we challenge people to run with Forerunner 55, 5 km. within 5 days, #5.5RouteChallenge – we encourage runners to create creative contents about running, and exclusively for Forerunner 55 users, we offer an FR55 Training Program developed by our Garmin Coach that will provide professional coaching guidance and work closely with a runner, exclusively for those who use Forerunner 55 via the Garmin Sports app. To introduce the Forerunner 55 adjoining these special events is one of our intention to reinforce our brand's core concept 'Every Beat of Life' that commits improve people lives with Garmin's innovation from your wrist." Mr. Sky Chen added.
The Garmin Forerunner 55 is now available for official sale at THB 6,790 via all authorized Garmin retailers. Learn more about the product at https://discover.garmin.com/th-TH/forerunner/forerunner-55/ and follow our social media Garmin Thailand Facebook Fan Page, Garmin Thailand Instagram, and Garmin Run Club Thailand Facebook Exclusive Group for the latest update from the Forerunner 55.
Garmin is determined to leverage and redefine running as a new habit for Thais. The company believes that the concept - EXERCISE IS THE BEST NUTRITION, RUNNING IS THE SIMPLEST WAY TO START - suits well with the innovation in the Forerunner 55 that help runners of all levels to focus more on the fundamentals of running and reach their goal with highlight intelligible features.
THE NEXT STRIDE FOR RUNNERS
With training features that cover a lifestyle of every running enthusiast from pre to post training.
- PacePro Lite - analyzes elevation changes and set a pace strategy for each stage to help users plan the right strategy before hitting the pavement.
- Daily Suggested Workout – presents practical training suggestion based on user data of their physical condition, and recovery time between each run.
- Built-in Activity Profile – apart from running, other built-in activity profiles in the wearable are also available for indoor and outdoor activities such as triathlon, cycling, swimming and many more for users to enhance their fitness.
- LiveTrack – helps users share their real-time position and run route with friends and family, while incident alerts can notify their emergency contact once they are in danger.
- Garmin Coach – offers a professional and tailoring training program developed by a professional coach from Garmin.
- Finish Time Estimator – estimates time use in advance for each run from a user's physical condition and training record.
- Cadence Alerts – notifies a user to precisely control their cadence during their run and keep their consistency up to their performance.
- Built-in Recovery Time – analyzes a user's activity and health data to suggest more precise recovery times between each run so that they can maintain the balance between rest and training properly.
- Wrist-Based Heart Rate – supplies a user with a heart rate tracking function during activity and resting to help them evaluate their fitness in every stride.
- Powerful Battery – lets users stay uncharged with a long-lasting battery that lasts up to 2 weeks in smartwatch mode and 20 hours in GPS mode.
- All-Day Activity Tracking – provides an all-day health-and-fitness tracking feature to predict physical condition of users in general for activities each day.
HEALTH TRACKING FEATURES FOR 24 HOURS
Not only focus on running and sports, the Forerunner 55 is also designed to support health of people via offering health monitoring feature that can understand health condition in real-time throughout the day. Users can learn about their health-and-fitness progress from Garmin Firstbeat Analytics™, integrated with health tracking features to suggest users when to play or rest, such as Stress Tracking, and Body Battery™. These features give users a reliable health forecast that would be advantageous to their training performance. In addition, the running smartwatch also supports women health with features such as pregnancy tracking, menstrual cycle tracking, and more that allow users to collect their symptoms. For complete experience of running, the Forerunner 55 encourages users to express their inner athletes with customizable watch faces alongside other widgets and apps available to download on Connect IQ™ Store.
"Today, we also want to announce our special events to support our Garmin fans and health enthusiasts through our new product launch that people could witness its ability to elevate their health and fitness lifestyle to the next level. The special events include #FR55Challenge – we challenge people to run with Forerunner 55, 5 km. within 5 days, #5.5RouteChallenge – we encourage runners to create creative contents about running, and exclusively for Forerunner 55 users, we offer an FR55 Training Program developed by our Garmin Coach that will provide professional coaching guidance and work closely with a runner, exclusively for those who use Forerunner 55 via the Garmin Sports app. To introduce the Forerunner 55 adjoining these special events is one of our intention to reinforce our brand's core concept 'Every Beat of Life' that commits improve people lives with Garmin's innovation from your wrist." Mr. Sky Chen added.
The Garmin Forerunner 55 is now available for official sale at THB 6,790 via all authorized Garmin retailers. Learn more about the product at https://discover.garmin.com/th-TH/forerunner/forerunner-55/ and follow our social media Garmin Thailand Facebook Fan Page, Garmin Thailand Instagram, and Garmin Run Club Thailand Facebook Exclusive Group for the latest update from the Forerunner 55.
