Coventry City boss Andy Thorn feels that his players are slightly ahead of schedule in terms of fitness.
Thorn who has had the players training this week in Portugal, told the CT's Andy Turner: "Because of their general fitness, we have been able to get right back into it straight away.
"It's good because we have still got just under five weeks of the pre-season to go and we have managed to do a lot of the work early on.
Thorn has been boosted by the return of Ben Turner, James McPake and and Gary Deegan and he said: "We have got to be careful with them because of the amount of time they have had out, so we have got to keep them reined in a bit."