GTA San Andreas muscle, fat and stat cheats

The GTA San Andreas muscle cheat is BUFFMEUP on PC. On PlayStation it is Triangle, Up, Up, Left, Right, Square, Circle, Left, and Xbox and Switch use the same sequence on their own buttons. This briefing covers the matching fat and skinny codes, the respect, sex appeal and skill cheats, which versions accept them, and what each one does to your save.

The muscle cheat on each platform

Here is the code for maxing CJ’s muscle on every platform with a supported entry method. Each one fires instantly.

• PC: type BUFFMEUP during gameplay (JYSDSOD also works)
• PlayStation (PS2, PS3, PS4, PS5): Triangle, Up, Up, Left, Right, Square, Circle, Left
• Xbox (360, One, Series X|S): Y, Up, Up, Left, Right, X, B, Left
• Nintendo Switch (Definitive Edition): X, Up, Up, Left, Right, Y, A, Left

Fat and skinny use the same opening. Only the final direction changes. Left gives muscle, Down gives fat, and Right gives skinny. Once you know that, you have all three body cheats memorised.

What you need before you start

The checklist is short, but skipping any item is the usual reason a code “doesn’t work.”

• A supported version of the game. Every console and PC release covered below accepts these codes. The mobile ports use their own on-screen entry methods.
• A D-pad or keyboard. Console codes are read from the directional pad, never the analog stick.
• Free-roam control of CJ. You can be on foot or in a vehicle. You cannot be paused, in a shop menu, or watching a cutscene.
• A spare save slot. Body and stat cheats change values that get written into your save. A backup is your only undo button.
• Trophy or achievement awareness. In the Definitive Edition, cheats lock out trophies and achievements while active. Keep a clean pre-cheat save if you are hunting them.

Body shape cheats: muscle, fat and skinny

These three codes set CJ’s physique directly. Instead of hitting the gym in Ganton or eating your way through Cluckin’ Bell, you rewrite the stat in a single input.

Cheat	PC	PlayStation	Xbox	Switch (DE)
Max muscle	BUFFMEUP or JYSDSOD	Triangle, Up, Up, Left, Right, Square, Circle, Left	Y, Up, Up, Left, Right, X, B, Left	X, Up, Up, Left, Right, Y, A, Left
Max fat	BTCDBCB or WHOATEALLTHEPIES	Triangle, Up, Up, Left, Right, Square, Circle, Down	Y, Up, Up, Left, Right, X, B, Down	X, Up, Up, Left, Right, Y, A, Down
Skinny (removes fat and muscle)	KVGYZQK or LEANANDMEAN	Triangle, Up, Up, Left, Right, Square, Circle, Right	Y, Up, Up, Left, Right, X, B, Right	X, Up, Up, Left, Right, Y, A, Right

The Switch column is a direct translation of the PlayStation layout to Nintendo’s button positions. Top face button replaces Triangle, left replaces Square, right replaces Circle and bottom replaces Cross. If a Switch code fails, check you are using the physical position and not the letter you see on a PlayStation guide.

The skinny cheat is the one people underrate. It strips CJ back to his thinnest frame and zeroes both fat and muscle. That makes it the reset button for any build you regret.

Stat cheats: respect, sex appeal and skills

Muscle and fat are only two of the stats San Andreas tracks. The game also scores respect, sex appeal, driving ability and weapon handling, and several of those have their own cheats.

Cheat	PC	PlayStation	Xbox
Max respect	OGXSDAG or WORSHIPME	L1, R2, Triangle, Down, R1, Cross, L1, Up, L2, L2, L1, L1	LB, RT, Y, Down, RB, A, LB, Up, LT, LT, LB, LB
Max sex appeal	EHIBXQS or HELLOLADIES	Circle, Triangle, Triangle, Up, Circle, R1, L2, Up, Triangle, L1, L1, L1	B, Y, Y, Up, B, RB, LT, Up, Y, LB, LB, LB
Max vehicle skills	VQIMAHA or NATURALTALENT	Square, L2, Cross, R1, L2, L2, Left, R1, Right, L1, L1, L1	X, LT, A, RB, LT, LT, Left, RB, Right, LB, LB, LB
Hitman level, all weapons	NCSGDAG or PROFESSIONALKILLER	Down, Square, Cross, Left, R1, R2, Left, Down, Down, L1, L1, L1	Down, X, A, Left, RB, RT, Left, Down, Down, LB, LB, LB

PC players have one more stat code. VKYPQCF, also typed as ICANGOALLNIGHT, maxes CJ’s stamina so he can sprint, swim and cycle much longer before tiring.

What each stat cheat changes in play

Max respect affects how many gang members you can recruit on the streets. The bigger your respect bar, the bigger the crew you can pull from Grove Street to back you up in turf wars. Respect also rises and falls through missions and gang warfare, so the cheat gives you a head start rather than a permanent lock.

Max sex appeal matters for the girlfriend system. Each girlfriend has a minimum appeal before she will date CJ. Appeal is normally built from muscle, clothes, haircut, tattoos and the car you drive, so the cheat bypasses a lot of shopping.

Max vehicle skills raises driving, flying, bike and cycling skill together. With high driving skill, cars handle better and you will tip over less on bikes. High flying skill makes aircraft far less twitchy. Driving skill also affects whether CJ falls off a motorbike in a crash.

Hitman level is the weapon skill cheat most players want. It raises every gun to Hitman, the highest tier. That unlocks dual-wielding for pistols, sawn-off shotguns, Micro SMGs and Tec-9s, and lets CJ move while aiming them. Hitman also improves accuracy across the board.

Survival cheats that pair well with body cheats

A body built by cheat can still be undone by gameplay. If CJ goes about three in-game days (72 in-game hours) without eating, he starts to starve. He then burns fat first, then muscle, then starts losing health. These codes keep a cheated build intact and keep CJ alive.

Cheat	PC	PlayStation	Xbox
Never get hungry	AEDUWNV	Square, L2, R1, Triangle, Up, Square, L2, Up, Cross	X, LT, RB, Y, Up, X, LT, Up, A
Infinite lung capacity	CVWKXAM	Down, Left, L1, Down, Down, R2, Down, L2, Down	Down, Left, LB, Down, Down, RT, Down, LT, Down
Infinite health	BAGUVIX	Down, Cross, Right, Left, Right, R1, Right, Down, Up, Triangle	Down, A, Right, Left, Right, RB, Right, Down, Up, Y

Never get hungry is the important one here. Pair it with max muscle and the build will not decay because you forgot to stop at a Burger Shot. Infinite health does not cover every death. Long falls and drowning can still kill CJ, so pair it with the lung capacity code if you are doing underwater work.

For the classic health-armor-cash code, the San Andreas armor cheat is HESOYAM on PC. It also restores health and hands you $250,000. Our guide to GTA San Andreas health and armor cheats has the console sequences.

How CJ’s body stats actually work

Knowing the system makes the cheats more useful. You know what you are skipping, and you can predict what gameplay will do to your build afterward.

Fat

Fat goes up when CJ eats. The cheapest meal at each fast-food chain costs $2: the Buster at Well Stacked Pizza, the Moo Kids Meal at Burger Shot and the Cluckin’ Little Meal at Cluckin’ Bell. Bigger meals add more fat. Eat too much in one sitting and CJ vomits.

A heavy CJ is slower on foot and tires faster. His clothes still fit, but his silhouette changes noticeably. Fat also lowers sex appeal unless a girlfriend specifically likes bigger men.

You burn fat by running, swimming, cycling and using the gym equipment. Starvation also burns it, though that costs health.

Muscle

Muscle comes from the gym, plus some from cycling and swimming. Muscle increases melee damage and raises sex appeal. It is also tied to learning the three extra fighting styles.

Each city has one gym, and each gym teaches a different style once you beat the trainer.

Gym	City	District	Fighting style taught
Ganton Gym	Los Santos	Ganton	Boxing
Cobra Martial Arts	San Fierro	Garcia	Kung Fu
Below the Belt Gym	Las Venturas	Redsands East	Kickboxing

The muscle cheat does not teach any fighting style. You still have to walk into a gym and win the fight with the trainer. A maxed muscle stat helps, because harder punches end the bout faster.

Stamina and lung capacity

Stamina sets how long CJ can sprint or pedal flat out. Lung capacity sets how long he can stay underwater before drowning. Both grow with use. Stamina has its own max cheat on PC, as do muscle, fat, respect and sex appeal, while most players cover lung capacity with the infinite lung capacity code.

Build recipes: combining body cheats

Because body cheats overwrite stats, the order you enter them changes the result. These combinations give predictable looks.

1. Lean and ripped: enter skinny first, then max muscle. This clears all fat and then adds full muscle on a clean frame. It gives the classic cover-art CJ and the best sex appeal from the body stats.
2. Big and heavy: enter max muscle, then max fat. You get a broad, heavy CJ who hits hard but runs slowly. It is good for comedy runs and melee-only challenges.
3. Full reset: enter skinny. Use this if a gameplay grind or an earlier cheat left CJ in a shape you dislike.
4. Locked build: finish any of the above with never get hungry. This stops starvation from eating into the stats you just set.

Check the Stats screen after each code. It shows both bars, so you can confirm the combination landed before you save.

Which versions accept these cheats

San Andreas has been re-released many times, and cheat support is not identical across every release. The button and text codes are the same wherever cheats are supported. What changes is how you enter them and what they cost you in trophies.

Version	Release	Cheat entry	Notes
Original PS2	October 2004	Controller codes	No trophies, so no penalty
Original PC and Xbox	June 2005	Typed (PC), controller (Xbox)	PC accepts both short and full-word codes
Xbox 360 remaster	2014	Controller codes	Also playable on Xbox One and Series via backward compatibility
PS3 port	December 2015	Controller codes	Same sequences as PS2
PS4 (PS2 Classic)	December 2015	Controller codes	Emulated PS2 version
Definitive Edition	November 2021	Controller or typed	PS4, PS5, Xbox, Switch and PC; cheats block trophies and achievements
Mobile (iOS, Android)	From December 2013	On-screen keyboard or menu	Netflix Definitive Edition entry is in the Accessibility menu under Options

A note on mobile

The mobile versions do support cheats. The 2013 classic port accepts codes through an on-screen keyboard, and the Netflix Games release of the Definitive Edition has a cheat entry screen in the Accessibility menu under Options. The Android port also has a long-standing community workaround: a physical keyboard connected over Bluetooth or USB, with PC text codes typed during play. Results vary by device and update.

Avoid “cheat apps” and modded APKs that promise unlocked codes. They are third-party downloads with no quality control. They put your device and your save file at risk.

Expected result

When a body or stat cheat takes, you should see three things right away.

• On-screen confirmation: “Cheat activated” appears in the top-left corner.
• An instant body change: CJ’s model updates on the spot, even mid-walk, for muscle, fat and skinny.
• Updated stat bars: the pause menu’s Stats page shows the relevant bar at maximum, or at minimum for skinny.

For respect, sex appeal and skill cheats, nothing changes visually. The Stats page is your proof. Skill cheats show up on the next drive or gunfight, when cars handle better and pistols suddenly go dual-wield.

Common mistakes and troubleshooting

Almost every “the code doesn’t work” report comes down to one of these.

1. Using the analog stick. Console codes only read the D-pad. Entering Up on the stick does nothing.
2. Entering codes while paused. The pause menu ignores cheat input. Close it and enter the code in live gameplay.
3. Getting the sequence order wrong. Respect and sex appeal are twelve inputs long, and one wrong press voids the whole code. Restart from the first button. The game does not resume a half-entered code.
4. Confusing Cross and Circle. Cross is the bottom face button and Circle is the right one. On Xbox, Cross is A and Circle is B.
5. Mixing up the last direction. Left is muscle, Down is fat, Right is skinny. Entering Right by habit is why “muscle” sometimes turns CJ into a twig.
6. Typing in a text field on PC. Typed codes only register in gameplay. If the Steam overlay or another app has keyboard focus, the game never sees your keystrokes.
7. Expecting codes in multiplayer mods. Multi Theft Auto servers run their own rules and do not use the single-player cheat system. Body codes will not fire there.
8. Losing the build later. CJ starves off fat and then muscle if he goes too long without food. Add never get hungry, or eat a $2 meal now and then.

Save safety beyond body cheats

Muscle, fat and stat codes are among the safest cheats in the game. They change numbers the game already tracks. The riskier codes are the ones that change how the world behaves, such as riot mode, the themed pedestrian and traffic modes, and some weather and time cheats.

Saving with world-altering modes active is the long-running warning across San Andreas communities. A separate slot costs you nothing. If you want the rest of the cheat list, from the Rhino tank to the Bloodring Banger, Hotring Racer, Quad and Trashmaster spawns, our page with every GTA San Andreas cheat code for all platforms covers them by category.

FAQ

What is the GTA San Andreas muscle cheat on PS4 and PS5?

Triangle, Up, Up, Left, Right, Square, Circle, Left. It works the same on the PS4 PS2 Classic and the Definitive Edition on PS4 and PS5. Enter it on the D-pad during gameplay.

How do I make CJ skinny again after using the fat cheat?

Use the skinny cheat. On PC that is KVGYZQK or LEANANDMEAN. On PlayStation it is Triangle, Up, Up, Left, Right, Square, Circle, Right. It removes both fat and muscle, so follow it with the muscle code if you want a lean, built CJ.

Do muscle and fat cheats disable achievements?

In the Definitive Edition, yes. Cheats block trophies and achievements while active. The original PS2 release has no trophies, so it carries no penalty. On any version with trophies or achievements, make a clean save before you cheat.

Does the muscle cheat unlock fighting styles?

No. It only raises the stat. You still have to beat the trainer at Ganton Gym for boxing, Cobra Martial Arts for kung fu, or Below the Belt Gym for kickboxing. The extra melee damage makes those fights much easier.

Will CJ lose the muscle from the cheat?

He can. If CJ goes about three in-game days (72 in-game hours) without food, he starts to starve and burns fat first, then muscle. Use the never get hungry cheat (AEDUWNV on PC) or feed him regularly to keep the build.

Is there a GTA San Andreas muscle cheat on mobile?

Yes. The 2013 classic mobile port supports cheat entry through an on-screen keyboard, and the Netflix Definitive Edition has a cheat entry screen in the Accessibility menu under Options. Some Android players also type PC codes with a connected physical keyboard, but support varies by device and is not guaranteed.