If you only listen to one Roadman conversation about how the elite end of the sport actually trains, make it one of the Dan Lorang episodes. The reason is simple: there are not many coaches in the world who have produced both an Ironman world champion and a Grand Tour roster, and Dan has done both with the same underlying framework.
He spent over a decade as personal coach to Jan Frodeno through three Ironman world titles, then to Anne Haug and Lucy Charles-Barclay. Since 2017 he's been Head of Performance at the team now branded Red Bull–Bora–Hansgrohe, working across an 11-month racing calendar that runs from the spring Classics through the Grand Tours into the autumn Worlds. The point isn't that he's coached famous names. The point is that the way he talks about training looks the same whether the athlete is preparing for Kona or for the Tour de France: long-arc development, polarised intensity distribution, daily load management, and a hard ceiling on grey-zone work.
For an amateur cyclist that translates into a few specific principles. The hard sessions need to be hard, the easy sessions need to be genuinely easy, and the structure of the year matters more than the structure of any single week. If you're trying to peak for one event a year, the work to build to it is measured in months, not weeks. If you're chronically tired or chronically plateauing, the answer is almost never another threshold session — it's a more honest look at how you've been riding the days between them.
When Anthony talks about building a "real" training plan rather than a stack of workouts, that's the Dan Lorang lineage talking. The episodes are linked below — start there before you tweak another zone.