Carnivore and the gym go together on one condition, and the condition is that you stop training like someone on carbs. High-volume training runs on glycogen. 20 sets a body part, sets of 8 to 15 chased to the burn, 2 hours under the lights: every one of those sets is drawing down the sugar stored in the muscle, and a carb eater refills it 3 times a day with rice. A carnivore carries less of it and refills it slower, so a session built to empty the tank leaves you flat, sore for days, and convinced the diet has cost you your strength. The diet didn't. The programme was written for a different fuel. What works instead: - 4 to 6 reps, heavy - A handful of lifts a session - 3 or 4 sessions a week - Under an hour, and out - Fasted, on last night's dinner - Eat big afterwards A heavy set of 5 is over in under 30 seconds and barely touches the glycogen. It runs on what's stored in the muscle for exactly that job, recovers between sets, and the stimulus for growth is the load, not the burn. Low reps build the muscle and skip the fatigue, which is the whole point of them whatever you eat, and on carnivore they're the only sensible way to train. The volume lifter's exhaustion was never building anything. It was the bill for running a sugar engine flat out, and the shake was how they paid it. Carnivore gives the muscle fat to run on and as much beef as it can use to build from. The training only has to be heavy and short, and the supplement industry has no product for heavy and short. The pump is water. The muscle is the steak.