Mental preparation is as important as physical training in order to do your best, whether you're at an amateur or professional level in your martial art.

Colored belts are the grading system of choice for most martial arts and fighting systems. It is great to have a goal to work towards, and when you have trained hard and you achieve that next colored belt you feel a sense of accomplishment. But

I bet a lot of you reading this today have seen the most famous Bruce Lee demonstration where in he completes dozens of push ups using only a finger and a single arm.