That evening, Helen Pepe stood on the tennis court and practiced for an hour with the tennis ball machine.
For professional tennis players, training with the ball machine was low-intensity training. This kind of training was mainly to maintain their familiarity with the ball. Not playing with the ball for a long time would make them rusty.
In Pepe's current condition, even this kind of low-intensity training carried a certain risk. Once a problem arose it could just be muscle soreness, but if it were more severe it might disrupt some core functions of the muscles.
In the past, after Pepe's training, her wounds would make her somewhat uncomfortable. However, after one hour of training, Pepe did not feel any discomfort.
"In the past, after relatively high-intensity training, there would be a continuous pain in the hip area. If the intensity were light, I would feel sore. Now, I don't feel sore at all," Pepe said to herself.
