If you have ever wondered who actually designed the training system that won seven Tour de France titles in eight years, the answer is Tim Kerrison. He's the Australian performance director who arrived at Team Sky in 2010 from swimming and rowing, found a sport that was still mostly coached on intuition, and quietly built the framework that produced Wiggins, Froome, Thomas, and Bernal at the top of the GC standings.
The system he built is more interesting than any single session. It rests on a small number of ideas: the entire year should be designed around the specific demands of the target race, the highest-leverage training block is a long structured altitude camp on terrain that replicates what the rider will face, sweet spot has a defined role inside a periodised plan rather than as a default mode, and coaching is mostly about subtracting work that doesn't earn its place. Almost everything the modern World Tour now does — the Sierra Nevada and Tenerife camps, the targeted return-to-racing schedule, the late-spring altitude block — was either invented or refined under Tim's framework.
For an amateur rider, the lesson isn't that you should fly to Tenerife. It's that the structure matters more than the workouts. Most amateur seasons are built session-up: pick a hard ride for Tuesday, an easier one for Thursday, repeat. The Kerrison approach is the inverse: pick the event, work backwards, and make every block of training defensibly relevant to the day you actually care about. That is the principle Anthony comes back to in almost every conversation about how to structure a real training plan, and it traces directly to Tim's work at Sky.
Tim is not a podcast guest, but his fingerprints are all over how the rest of the Roadman expert network — Dan Lorang, John Wakefield, the Sky/INEOS-trained coaches now at other teams — talks about training the sport.