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Please name some good,
solid resources for suggested exercises and
specific muscles used in targeted toning

I would follow the emergency action plan as defined by the facility management. No-one should teach at an aquatic facility without knowing the procedures for emergencies. The 'severe respiratory distress' could be several different things - asthma attack, heart attack, anxiety attack. You wouldn't know for sure, so you would have to stop class, get this person to the edge of the pool, and/or out of the water, and send someone from your class to the phone. Severe respiratory distress could well require a Your primary, best resource, is your knowledge of human anatomy and movement analysis. Once you know how the body is put together, muscle origins and insertions, and all movements at each primary joint, you have all the information to design exercises that will strengthen any given area of the body. For example, if you want to target the biceps, you know you need to do elbow flexion and shoulder flexion. You set that up in the pool so that water acts as the resistance for strengthening. You can enhance it with use of resistant and/or buoyant equipment.

There are many other resources like books and videos, too numerous to list on this page. Contact AEA www.aeawave.com and look at the products in the AKWA Shop.11 call.