Follow up on new classes

Tai Chi: 2 sessions so far.  Sweet Hubby and I are taking this together.  I'm really liking it, and like the teacher and that he is going slowly, going over the moves multiple times.  As gentle and easy as it looks, the moves are quite precise, and I'm happy to go over the same section of moves many tines.  I'd like to get this into my muscle memory.

Clogging: 1 session.  I think I'm really going to like this, enough that I'm planning to get the special tap shoes cloggers use.  (Regular tap shoes have one tap on the toe, clogging shoes have double taps.)  If I keep up with it and want to do it more, I'm not sure where to go for that.  I'll have to look up if there are clogging groups in the area.

Bridge: 3 sessions.  Bridge is kicking my butt.  Every session is 2 1/2 hours, and by the end, I've usually at least somewhat understood a few of the concepts (how to read one's hand, how to make an opening bid, how to respond to an opening bid, how to read one's partner's signals, etc), but I also end up feeling cotton-headed and lost.  Fortunately the other players who are as green at this as I assure me that they are also feeling lost and stupid, and the more experienced players promise us that we actually are learning and all will become clear eventually.

Essentrics: 2 sessions.  This is a wonderful all-over workout for seniors, focusing on strength, balance, stretching, joint care, posture.  I'm enjoying it and, because I workout so often, am able to follow the teacher's moves really well.  Still, it shocked me when, in the last class, I noticed how difficult it is for me now to get up from the floor to standing.  I've been working out regularly almost my entire life and have always taken great pride in my strength, but now I have to get off the floor in stages, carefully, one move at a time, with effort.  How is it possible that I'm so strong but am struggling with this?  Well, the answer certainly must be that I'm 72 and simply am not and will never be as strong as I used to be, no matter how many classes I take or workouts I do.  And that's just how it is now.  I'll keep working out, both at home and in whatever classes sound interesting, but I have now as another goal to accept and honor where my body and I are, what we can and can't do together, how much to expect and what expectations to let go of.