My former workout partner was like this. She wanted to be praised and rewarded for every single little thing. She came to me one day after about 6 weeks of us very sporadically working out together and was so excited that she did a whole 5 squats that morning! I said "Five? Just five?" She got this hurt look on her face and said "Well, before this I couldn't do any. And I did like 75 crunches this morning." I challenged her to a crunch-off and she fought back saying "I already did that many this morning, I don't wanna overdo it and hurt myself." Because she "hurt" herself constantly. She bailed on me constantly, claiming "anxiety" or not feeling good or too tired or other shit. This is the same girl who refused to do most workouts through the full extension or crunch or full movement at all because she was convinced that if you felt the muscles ache or the tendons pull, you were hurting yourself.  Obviously, that workout partnership didn't last long. As far as I know she's still a fat ham, moved to the South, and probably got much, much hammier.