Hearts players continued their pre-season preparations under the guidance of fitness guru Tom Ritchie and Anguel Tchervenkov this afternoon.

With ball work due to start tomorrow, the players went through a range of short and longer aerobic tasks this afternoon.

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Hearts Media was on hand to capture the action as the Jambos continued to sweat their way towards the new season.

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Riccarton is the setting for pre-season training

Tom Ritchie oversees another fitness session

Cesnauskis is almost smiling after 90 minutes of tough physical activity

Christophe Berra is put through his paces

Ouch!

Anguel Tchervenkov watched on as the players trained

The sports scientist is similing - but then he was not running!

It hurts so much for Marco Pelosi as Andrew Driver sees the funny side

The work is over for the day - thank goodness!