How do you work out and raise your stats in GTA 6?

Stats are a thing the series keeps changing its mind about. San Andreas had gyms and a fat meter; Grand Theft Auto V kept skill bars that grew with use and dropped the gym. GTA 6’s material shows a gym again, with Lucia in it and a bench press with a prompt on each trigger, and three meters on the weapon wheel that nobody has named. That is the evidence we have, and it is more than nothing.

What the material shows

A press screenshot from the Lucia Caminos set puts Lucia on a padded bench with her hands on her knees, in white fingerless training gloves, a cropped hoodie, over-ear headphones and black and lime leggings, by the look of it between sets rather than mid-set. To the right stands a barbell on a rack with plates loaded; the room is bright, with louvred slats behind her and palms outside. The Extended Look adds the set itself at 17:20: the camera looks straight down on Lucia flat on a bench, pressing a bar with a green GAINZ plate at each end, and at each of her hands sits a button prompt in a grey ring, L2 on the left and R2 on the right. Read as controls, they make the press something you play rather than watch. Trailer 2 has an open-air gym on the sand at 0:38, a man pressing a bar on a bench with a rig of posts and bars and two punching bags behind him. In the Launch Trailer, a muscular, tattooed man without a shirt works a cable machine in a gym, his skin shining with sweat (0:57). The gym is back as a place. What it raises, none of the frames says.

The other frame is the weapon wheel at 17:50 of the Extended Look, whose top left corner carries three meters: a heart in pink, a lightning bolt in cyan, an eye in lilac. The three have different lengths, the heart the longest and the eye the shortest, and the heart alone carries a divider; at 25:25 the eye bar is down to a stub on a dark track, where at 24:49 it was full, so at 17:50, with no track showing, all three were full. Health, stamina and something to do with seeing is the plain reading, and it is a reading. Two activities in the footage look like the places a stat would grow: a scored shooting range with a clock and a target count, and a bare-knuckle fight in a backyard ring.

What nobody knows

• What the three meters are, and whether their different lengths mean they can be grown.
• Whether the gym raises anything, and whether the beach gym does the same.
• Whether the sweat on the man at the cable machine at 0:57 of the Launch Trailer means anything beyond looks.
• Whether there are skills for driving, shooting, flying or lung capacity, as last time.
• Whether Jason and Lucia have different stats, and whether either has a special ability.

How Grand Theft Auto V did it

This is the reference, not a prediction. Grand Theft Auto V had no gym; it had skills that grew by doing. The GTA Wiki lists them: strength, raised by landing hits in melee and playing sports, which boosted melee damage, sped up ladder climbing and cut the damage you took; stamina, which set how long you could run, swim or cycle flat out before losing health; lung capacity, raised by diving and, oddly, yoga; flying, from time in the air and flight school; shooting, from hits, headshots and the range; driving, from wheelies and clean landings; stealth, from staying undetected; and a special ability bar particular to each lead. A gym, with a bar you press on the triggers, is the part the last game’s story had no room for; the GTA Wiki lists gyms as a recreational activity in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.

What this page becomes on launch day

From 19 November 2026 this guide is rewritten from the release build: what the meters are, which activities raise which stat, what the gym does and whether the leads differ, each with the date it was tested. Until then the short answer at the top stands.