There was that 'back to school' feeling about the Compton training ground yesterday as the vast majority of the Wolves squad returned to work after seven weeks away.
And in keeping with that back to school atmosphere, so too came the first of three days of fitness testing before training begins for real.
The backroom staff have put together the different tests for the returning squad to guage their current fitness levels against how they finished last season and as a result start to formulate what is needed to complement the football work over the next few weeks.
Fitness and conditioning coach Tony Daley explains more.
"The players are split into three groups for three days of testing," he says.
"For some the days will be very tough and others slightly less so!
"One group will be in the Sports Science laboratory doing the VO2 Max Test for aerobic endurance and to check their lactate profile.
"Another group will carry out field tests outside working on their speed, agility and power.
"These look at how quick they are over different distances as well as speed endurance in terms of their ability to recover from sprints.
"The agility tests are important because it's great to be able to run in straight lines but football's not about that and there's a lot of multi-directional changes needed in the game.
"There are also jump tests looking at the power in the players' legs and seeing if they've lost any significant power from last season which may signal a potential problem with injuries.
"And the third group will be doing pre-hab screening which has become part of our operations over a season.
"This involves a series of movements which will tell us where the players are in terms of their core and stability and strength.
"So it's very busy with all hands on deck but it gives us a measure of where the players are for the start of the season."
Once again the squad were despatched for the summer with pre-season programmes to follow which was a mix of rest and exercise to at least maintain a certain level of fitness.
In doing that, the players are able to enjoy the pre-season football work a lot sooner than in times past.
Daley added: "They've had their programmes to follow during the close season and this give us an idea of where we can start them for pre-season and how much progress they need to make.
"Once we've done all the tests we'll have a look at them to see where they are.
"I'm sure they will come back fit and healthy as they have done in the previous years I've been here.
"The gaffer likes to introduce a ball very early into pre-season so it's not just about fitness work which is why it's good that the players maintain a certain level of fitness.
"There are specific drills involving ball work as well as a lot of strength work in the gym.
"It's all very well thought-out as we try and get as much as we can done to maximise the players' condition for the start of the season.
"And it's all with the ambition of getting them to be in peak condition for that first game of the season."
Five players were missing from those checking back in yesterday.
Kevin Doyle and Kevin Foley are back in later in the week having featured in end-of-season internationals while World Cup trio Marcus Hahnemann, Adlene Guedioura and Nenad Milijaš have been given extra time off having only exited the competition last week.
