and today we've got 15 new things to
know about the new garmin 455.
now i know all the attention on today's
announcements are probably on the new
lte connectivity of the 945 they're
higher in running watch but
here's a dirty secret this is where all
the goods are like yeah that's cool and
all that kind of stuff but there is so much new stuff packed in
this watch it's insane they've basically
taken the 400 245 and stuff into this watch
that's like the simplest explanation of it so
i'm going to run through these 15 new
things and then you'll know everything there
should know about it the first thing to
know which is not part of the 15 things
is the price it stays at 199 us dollars
uh and in this case there's only one
model now so in the past there was a 445
and the 45 s two slightly different sizes they've
consolidated back to just the 455
and it used the same screen size as the
past larger unit
uh and it has the same exterior bezel of
42 millimeters like the past
445. so okay the very first one on the
list is edition of pace pro this is
something we saw on garments higher and
watches a couple years ago
and what it allows you to do is to get a
customized kind of race plan
for a given course or no course at all
if you want to uh that accounts for
essentially the terrain so the idea
being that you're going to run certain
splits faster or slower if you're going
uphill or downhill
to meet a target goal pace or target
goal time
so you do all this on garmin connect to
mobile and then you shoot that
to the watch itself and then you can
execute that on the watch as you're out
about doing this particular race or on a
training day the next one is the
addition of daily suggested workouts
again another thing that started on
garmin's higher end watches just a year
or so ago uh and in this case it's just
for running
and what essentially it will do is it
looks at your existing running profile
over the last couple of days or the
workouts
longer than that in some cases and then
it looks at your recovery and it
suggests a workout for today
so it's done a pretty good job of
suggesting what it should suggest
based on what i would think a coach
would normally give so you access this
every time you hit the run menu
so you hit run and then in a second it
will show this here because i'm indoors
it won't show this quite yet so i'll
just go to training
workouts today's suggestion and right
now it's showing doing a base workout
815 a mile
uh for 48 minutes and it tells me what
this particular workout is for
uh and you can see there's the steps
there in some cases it'll give you more
complex workouts intervals and things
like that
but in this case it's just kind of a
straightforward run uh to help my base
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so the next feature is probably my
favorite feature on this watch which is
track mode
uh i love going to the track and i love
getting perfect gps
tracks for well strava after the fact so
you go to sport modes here and you go
down
to track run you can move at the top by
adding into a favorites
and then from there you can choose which
lane you're in so left-hand button right
there track run settings
lane number and you can see the lanes
there and then what happens is when you
go to the track
for the very first time when you go to a
given track for that very first time
it'll learn the track in general you're
talking two to three laps before it
learns it
so simply save off that particular
workout and then go ahead and start your
legit track workout
again for the first time you go to a
given track you don't have to do that
you can just do your track work and it
learns it
and you'll have some imperfections on
that uh first couple apps and then it
like snaps
perfectly to the exact lane of the track
something the garmin rolled out about a
year ago after korros did it first and
it's really cool i used it today in my
workout and it was pretty much flawless
besides the pretty track the main
benefit to this is that it knows your
exact position around that track and
thus
it can give you exact pacing the entire
way around versus more variable pacing
so my wife was using an older
phoenix 5s uh and her pacing was like
versus mine was perfectly consistent the
entire way because it knew
exactly where i was on that track it
also go ahead and snap the distances
a little bit closer to the hundreds so
if you're coming up on
800 meters for a distance you hit lap it
snaps it to 800 meters
uh not quite as good of snapping as the
wahoo rival series but
pretty darn close now once you've got a
couple of runs under your belt that you
will start to see accurate data or some accurate date at
least in the finish time estimator whichthe widget
you'll see it says my vo2 max it says 60
right now and it has my view to max there i go
back down again and see race predictor
this race predictor predicts your
current finishing time is based on your
vo2 max but also based on what you've
been doing lately
so i have not been doing a ton of super
long runs like 20 miles or anything like
that so you'll see my 5k time isn't too bad my
marathon time's a bit slower relative to
my 5k time and i stay relative because that's
important so it's looking at this and
saying you know what you don't really
have a long base mileage to be able to get a
fast enough marathon time to match that
potential 5k time uh again
this is not a perfect thing this is
giving you like the potential the
capacity to do this
based on your current vo2 max which it
estimates uh and then based on your
recent run history now if you keep it
going down in this menu here you will see recovery
hours which is also new on the 455 and
the first time we've seen it on this
uh kind of watch series and this uses
the data from your workouts to go ahead
and figure out your recovery time until
your next hard workout and that's something that's
in like the minor text of garmin's
online site here and there
but isn't on this watch itself or any
other watches and it's often really
confusing to people
but this is until your next hard workout
so 15 hours which puts me basically you
know tomorrow morning or so which is
fine uh and it just tells me to train as
usual uh if i had a much
longer duration there it would tell me
some additional guidance or more
detailed guidance there as well now the
next feature is addition of the finished
time estimator so the way that works we'll go
back to the run menu like pretending a
new run uh go into run and then we'll go into
training on the left-hand side right
there training all the way down to estimate
finish time and we just choose the distance that we
want so we use a 10k
half marathon marathon we can do a
custom we just choose the 10k here
and then we just simply start running
and it's going to tell you how much
suffering time you have left until you
reach the end of your run
based on your current pacing super
simple super straight forward
and it shows you the amount of distance
left as well until the end of the run
now switching topics away a little bit
from pure running stuff
is the addition of connect iq in the
past you had connected queue watch faces
which means like you could download
customizable watch faces from garmin
connect iq which is their app store
but in this case they add on data fields
widgets and apps
uh and the reason that matters is there
are a ton of data fields out there it's
a data field for example that allows you
to connect a power meter to this watch
if you want to there's a data field that
allows you to counthow many beers you've earned uh for a
given run and i mean there's literally
thousandsand thousands of fields out there
basically a ton of different apps from a
ton of different developers
that you can go ahead and put on the
watch uh in particular for runners one
that probably matters the most is the
ability to add the stride data field uh
so you can go ahead into here
add the stride data field now it should
show probably the next couple days uh
but i tested it on a run today for
example my track run and the data came
through just fine
uh so that allows you to get running
power onto this watch now continue on a
little bit of the geekier trend here is
the addition of the virtual run
profile so you see that right there
virtual run uh what this is used for is
primarily zwift uh running treadmill
running and it basically will broadcast at your
pace your cadence uh as well as your
heart rate over bluetooth smart and m plus but over
bluetooth smart uh so that you can pick
it up in other apps
so for example i can go into zwift
running parent my watch here just wear
it on my wrist like normal
and then it'll broadcast that paste
information to zwift now the accuracy
that information is going to vary a
little bit primarily we're talking the
pace side of it the more data you have for
this watch outside
it'll pull that data and use it for
indoors run so if you put this watch
straight into wrist and go straight in
the treadmill the accuracy would be hot garbage but if
you go outside and run a very
varied workout then that fills up these
little buckets different pace categories
and then it completes a more accurate
profile of your pacing from an
accelerometer standpoint
in addition to the virtual run profile
there's also a few more new profile
sport profiles here
uh you'll see if you go down there is
the uh there we go poolsome
so in the past you could not have a pool
some mode it was always waterproof this
is waterproof too of course
but this will actually count laps in the
pool there is no open water swim though
that is garmin's higher end watches to
get that uh you also see down here the
uh hit workouts there as well in total
there's 18 different sport profiles
they're here so again not quite the same
like brett that you'd see on their
hiring watches but
the vast majority of profiles that most
people are going to use are now on
the 455. the next one is the addition of
women's health tracking into the watch
widgets itself while in the past you
could do the menstrual cycle or pregnancy
tracking uh in the garment connect app
it wasn't on the 445 series to be able
to do it from the watch itself so now
you can track those symptoms directly in
the watch in one of the widgets there
now in my case my account is set as male
so i can't actually access the settings
there but if you toggle your account to
female then you can go ahead and access
those settings from the widgets world
menu you'll just need to add that widget
role to your lineup there super quick and easy
takes a couple seconds and then you're
good to go speaking of widgets one of
the things you may have noticed when i
was scrolling through here
is that the widgets are all smaller now
so these are widget glances and this is
something that we've seen in the past on garmin's
phoenix six series watches and it's
trickled down to almost every other
watch except the 445 series so now we have in a 55
series it just makes the data easier to see and
access so as opposed to one big
uh widget per data field the data type
uh you see all these listed here and i
just scroll through them and then once i
find one i want more information about i
just simply tap into it and i can see the steps over the course
of the day for example and this is using
the new user interface kind of ui styling that we've seen on
the venue 2 got pulled in here as well
and again you can still get the full
details of those by clicking into them
but otherwise it's just a little bit
smaller until you open them up and since
we're in the widgets area if we go back
we've got a new widget which was
something that was not previously there
uh which is respiration rate so this
will track respiration rate 24 hours a
day i won't do it for workouts but the rest
of the day we'll go ahead and track that
and you can see once i've put this on
it'll basically track that there
and show us my seven-day awake average
as well there's plenty of things you can
research out there on using respiration
rate of breathing rate uh to predict
you know kind of the onset of illness
especially over the last year or so
and it's something that has previously
been on most of garments iron watches so
it's nice to see that a more affordable
option here on the 55. next just a couple things i
wanted to briefly mention that are
worthwhile uh in like sport modes and
stuff that are different here so if i go
to run there is addition of a bunch of new
stuff so i go to run settings
and we go down into laps there's now a
uh lap alert banner that you can
customize you can change the data fields
on that so the dab every time you hit the lap
button uh you can see like the last
split if you want to for that particular
interval or whatever the case may be you
can customize that which is cool uh if we go back here auto
pause now has a custom auto pause threshold in the
past it was just on or off
so this way you can customize that
threshold to make more sense for you
and then if we go back to data fields
you now get up to four data fields per page so if i go
scroll down here there's some custom
pages i have and you can see those right there four
different fields if you want to
uh that's my stride field right there so
the connect iq one again showing in that
and you can customize basically all
these fields but you get two additional
fully custom fields
so this is like a stock field there a
stock field then a heart rate field a
time field
and then customer one customer two and i
just tap into these
and i can change the data fields within
that's the top one i can choose
many different data fields here i own
all these in my in-depth review if you
want as well
to kind of dig into that in more detail
and finally the last two things uh
number one is battery life i like
section number 12 i guess but
they've increased the battery life from
one week of standby to two weeks of
standby so actually a pretty dramatic
improvement there
thus far i'd say that seem to be
trending about correctly uh i
tend to focus more on the gps battery
life and for that they've increased it
from 13 hours to 20 hours
that also seems to be trending in the
right direction here based on my testing
and the files and data
stuff like that and the last item on the
list is accuracy in this case it is
using the existing garmin elevate v3
optical heart rate sensor versus
something like the 945 lte that just
came out today
is using the v4 sensor practically
speaking i haven't seen that make much
of a difference uh they're pretty darn
similar in my testing uh pretty darn accurate as
well as well as for gps accuracy
i dive into all the accuracy stuff in my
full written review you can see that
in the description down there so if you
want to go into tons of charts and data
and comparisons that's
that's all there for you it's it's all
there for the taking so with that
hopefully you found this interesting
useful also there's the full
user interface video up in the corner
there that go through even more details
on this stuff
i just walked through the entire watch
and how it works and all that kind of
stuff it's all
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