Clearly your passionate about the diet which is great. When I say the muscle gains may be negligible that is not to say you cannot get stronger on the paleo diet. The tremendous gains someone might experience while following the diet would be due to their novice training level in terms of adaptation and not so much the diet. So to say you can get a lot stronger on the paleo diet would be a misnomer, because you can technically also get really strong off of a KFC diet to, just because most people training with the paleo diet are so unadapted to the strength training stimulus. Beyond the novice phase though, you will find it difficult to make significant progress into your intermediate stage on the paleo diet.

In my experience in talking to and coaching hundreds of people at this point very few people on the paleo diet actually get 40% of their calories from vegetables. One problem with the paleo diet is there is no largely accepted consensus on these percentages. So in your example you are correct, in reality though it is not how most people follow the diet.

My standards are very high, when I say you wont put on “alot of muscle” with the paleo diet that means you shouldn’t look to gain 10-20 pounds of lean mass in a short period of time. It generally doesn’t happen.

I am very familiar with Robb Wolf, I’ve been following him and reading his stuff for years.

Thanks for taking the time to comment, hopefully this cleared some things up for you.

Nate