THE WESTERN Bulldogs' young guns will kick-start their 2010 campaign on Monday with the first of many pre-season training sessions at Whitten Oval.

The first to third-year players will be put through a light day before embarking on a five-week training block ahead of their Christmas break.

The club's more senior players have been granted a slightly longer hiatus and will return on November 23.

They will train six days a week with half-days on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, and will complete a range of fitness sessions including cross training and swimming at Victoria University and running near the Maribyrnong River.

Despite a large number of post-season operations, every Bulldog will start some form of training over the next week.

"They're all doing something. Every single player will come back and be involved in some sort of program, even the post-season surgeries," general manager of football James Fantasia told afl.com.au.

"Kids like Roughy (Jordan Roughead) and Ayce (Cordy), they've all already been in here and have started doing work."

Roughead, Easton Wood and Liam Picken all had shoulder reconstructions in October while Cordy had surgery on his knee.

From the senior group, only Barry Hall (ankle arthroscope) is expected to miss the start of training.

Robert Murphy (knee) will return in a restricted capacity while Daniel Cross (two ankle reconstructions) has been training at the club for the past two weeks.

"They've all gone really well. There's not one surgery that's happened that has caused us serious concerns," Fantasia said.

"The only one that will be a later start will be Barry but he wasn't due back for another fortnight anyway.

"He'll still come in and do some lighter stuff and effectively, he's already up and running."

Will Minson has recovered better than expected from toe surgery while Stephen Tiller and Sam Reid are well on the mend following major groin operations.

"Both have been in doing some training and the reports are the operations were successful," Fantasia said.

"They've had six weeks since the surgery so they're just about ready to start their programs, and we'll monitor that in the early stages to ensure they're not overloaded."

Fantasia said there would be plenty of similarities with the Dogs' successful summer training regime of 2008-2009.

"We're not going to shy away from having another tough pre-season," he said.

"We think we made some significant improvements in our overall endurance and strength this year that reflected in us being high up as one of the best fourth quarter finishing sides.

"It's (head of physical performance) Bill Davoren's second year so he's going to have an even more confident and in-depth knowledge of what we should be doing."

The club will also have an overnight training camp in the weeks leading into Christmas.