If you have ever talked about your "base phase" or your "A race" or your "TSS for the week", you're speaking Joe Friel's language. He didn't invent periodisation — that was the Eastern Bloc strength coaches in the 1960s — but he was the coach who took the principles, translated them for the cyclist with a job and a family, and wrote them down in a book that has now sold more copies than any other training book in cycling.
The Cyclist's Training Bible, first published in 1996 and now in its fifth edition, is still the closest thing the sport has to a shared vocabulary. The framework is simple enough to fit on a page: divide the year into base, build, peak, race, and transition phases; identify A, B, and C races; train your weaknesses in the off-season; sharpen your strengths as the targets approach; take a recovery week every three to four weeks. Every one of those ideas now feels obvious. None of them was obvious in amateur cycling before Joe wrote about it.
He went on to co-found TrainingPeaks, which made the framework navigable for anyone with a power meter or a heart rate strap, and the same vocabulary now powers most modern coaching software — including the Vekta plans the Not Done Yet community trains on. He served as chairman of the USA Triathlon National Coaching Commission and has spent the last decade publishing increasingly detailed work on training the masters athlete: how the priorities shift after 50, why strength work becomes non-negotiable, what an honest recovery schedule looks like when you're no longer 25.
For a serious amateur cyclist trying to build a real training plan rather than collect workouts, Joe's body of work is the foundation. Anthony's coaching frameworks lean on it directly. The articles below are the ones where you'll see his vocabulary most clearly.