HAWTHORN onballer Shaun Burgoyne is well-positioned to attack his second season with the Hawks after completing the majority of the club's pre-Christmas fitness and conditioning work.

Burgoyne, 28, arrived at the club from Port Adelaide via last year's trade period on crutches having undergone post-season knee surgery.

It took him until round eight to make his Hawthorn debut, but his form improved steadily as the year progressed and the 173-game veteran maintains he has been able to carry that form into this preparation.

"This year we set a target to do at least double the amount of pre-season that I did last year and we're on track," Burgoyne said from Waverley on Tuesday.

"All the boys want to have a good pre-season and I'm no different. It gives you real confidence in your body knowing you've done the work because it is a long season and the work you do now helps you in the latter half of the season.

"As a whole we've got a lot of players on the track and far less injuries this year so we're heading into the Christmas break full of confidence."

The Hawks resume from their Christmas holidays on January 4, but Lance Franklin said the next fortnight was a break in name only.

"The last month of training leading into Christmas has been exceptional by the boys and [the goal] is to just maintain our fitness over the Christmas break," Franklin said.

"It's not a break from training; it's just time away from the club more than anything.

"We've got to maintain our fitness over the break and then come back ready to go."

Both Burgoyne and Franklin maintain the side's disappointing elimination final loss to Fremantle in Perth has been a constant source of motivation for the group during the crucial training period.

With the clear goal to improve on last year's finish, Burgoyne says a thorough review of the 2010 season revealed the way forward in the next campaign.

"Goalkicking is one [thing] and we lost a few interstate trips so we've identified those two areas as probably areas that we need to fix up," Burgoyne said.

"There are also other areas as well that we need to fix and we're working on those pretty hard.

"There are 16 other team out there that want to play finals and we're no different. We want to play finals football and that's got to be the goal. That's what we'll aim to do and we'll reassess after that."