He's got six weeks of training and seven friendlies lined-up ahead of the 2008/09 campaign which kicks-off on August 16.
Bruce has been piecing the pre-season programme over the past few weeks and was able to rubber-stamp his plans once Latics secured their Premier League status.

The players will report back to Christopher Park in the second week of July before heading to a training camp in Austria on July 15.
That will last for 10 days during which they'll play three friendlies, more than likely against local sides.
On returning to England, they head to Oakwell for the third year running to tackle Barnsley on Tuesday, July 29.
And it's back over the Pennines later that week to play Sheffield Wednesday at Hillsborough on Saturday, August 2.

Latics then travel to Edinburgh on August 5 where they'll face Hibernian at Easter Road, before flying to Holland to tackle FC Utrecht on Sunday, August 11.
The players have just started an eight-week break but head to the beach with a warning from Bruce to keep themselves in shape.
Only a minor weight and fat content gain will be
tolerated as Bruce is determined his players hit the ground running.

The squad should have a different look about it by July, with Bruce planning to be busy with incoming and outgoing transfer business.
Bruce must decide on the futures of a group of players who are either coming to the end of their contracts, have been on loan at the JJB or loaned out to other clubs.

Mike Pollitt and Josip Skoko are out of contract at the end of June, with keeper Pollitt the more likely to be offered a new deal.
Marcus Bent, Maynor Figueroa and Erik Hagen have now completed their loan stays, although Latics have the option to sign them permanently.
Figueroa looks most likely to stay, while there is a deal in place to buy Bent for £1m from Charlton, with talks set to start with the player's agent soon.
But it's still not certain a deal will be done as Bruce wants an overhaul of the frontline which saw five strikers score only 17 goals between them this season.

As for Hagen, the centre-half said in last night's Evening Post he was struggling to earn a permanent transfer after playing only once for Latics.
Three players have been out on loan – Henri Camara, David Cotterill and Carlo Nash (Stoke) and it looks like their futures will lie elsewhere.