[Review of the literature on myoglobin in the development of exertion and aerobic training].

The myoglobin has the property to store the oxygen at the level of the striated muscle. The histological study of the striated muscles proves that the distribution of myoglobin is neither uniform nor identical in all of the muscular fibres (slow twitch and fast twitch fibres). It has been shown that the myoglobin content increases with endurance training but the opposite effect (decrease) has not been formally demonstrated during a training based on short and explosive exercises.