With a best-selling self-help book under one arm and a beaming smile on his face, Collingwood star Dayne Beams made an appearance at the Holden Centre on Monday as he looks to return from a difficult 2019.

The All-Australian midfielder managed only nine appearances for this year after making a controversial move from Brisbane at the end of 2018.

Beams underwent hip and shoulder surgery this year and spent time away from the club to deal with ongoing mental health issues.

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Scott Pendlebury in action on day one of the pre-season. Source: Getty Images

The 29-year-old was spotted arriving at the Holden Centre with Mark Manson’s global phenomenon book The Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A counterintuitive approach to living a good life.

More than two hours after Collingwood’s first to fourth-year players reported back to pre-season training, and not long after new recruit Darcy Cameron spoke to the media for the first time, Beams appeared on the athletics track at the Holden Centre.

He ran a series of 150m and 200m repeat efforts alongside rehab co-ordinator Ben Shipperd.

Jaidyn Stephenson on the burst on Monday. Source: Getty Images

Foxsports.com.au understands that Beams has been completing a running and weights program at the club in the past few weeks during the off-season break.

The former Brisbane captain has been spotted running laps by staff members on their lunch break and lifting weights on his own inside the club’s headquarters on Olympic Boulevard.

Beams spent part of his off-season trekking the iconic Kokoda Trail with his sister, Khalya Beams, and teammate Nathan Murphy.

He is on track to return to training when the senior group hits the track on December 2.

Collingwood captain Scott Pendlebury, Mason Cox, Chris Mayne and Jordan Roughead completed Monday’s two-hour training session with the younger group.