In modern socioeconomic conditions professional training of students in higher educational institutions is of great importance, which most concretely represents the principle of organic connection of physical education with the practice of work. The assistance in the preparation of harmoniously, highly skilled specialists is the purpose of physical education in educational institutions. In the process of training from the course of physical education, the tasks are to be solved: education of students of high moral, volitional and physical qualities, readiness for highly productive work; preservation and strengthening of health, assistance in the correct formation and comprehensive development of the organism, support of high working capacity throughout the period of training; comprehensive physical training of students; their profile physical training taking into account the peculiarities of future labor activity; acquisition of students the necessary knowledge on the basics of theory, methodology and organization of physical education and sports training; education of students convinced of the need to regularly engage in physical education and sports. Ukraine has a wide range of activities that create the necessary working and living conditions, improve the external environment, including the production environment, the further development of health care. At the same time, human activity, physical culture and sports are important factors for improvement, health promotion, which ultimately enhances the creative activity of man and his ability to work. Physical culture is an integral part of human life. Physical exercises play a significant role in the ability of members of society, which is why knowledge and skills in physical culture should be laid out in educational institutions of different levels in stages. Despite the scientific achievements in the physical education and sport system, most of the issues of professional training were left out of the attention of domestic and foreign physicists and sports scientists. Taking into account this, we faced the task of developing an educational model of the professional physical training of students of the specialty of production and processing of livestock products and to identify the main components of the content of profiling physical training. We have developed the content of the curriculum for students of the specialization of the production and processing of livestock products, which consisted of two blocks: physical education and physical training.

The goal of physical education in schools is to facilitate the preparation harmoniously developed, highly qualified specialists. The training course in physical education provides the following tasks: training students in high moral, volitional and physical qualities; readiness for effective work; the preservation and promotion of health; promoting good formation and the comprehensive development of the body; maintain high efficiency over the entire study period. The role and importance of physical culture and sports is:  - to reduce terms of professional adaptation, professional skills, productivity, resistance to unfavorable environment; - maintaining health and reducing accidents, improving professional development and motor skills important in order to maximize the expansion and deepening of motor capacity and motor experience regarding mastering the profession; - improve professionally important physiological functions for the professional development of and resistance to unfavorable working environment.

Physical education in the higher education system should be based on new teaching technologies, which will ensure the physical and psychophysiological readiness of students to fulfill their professional responsibilities. In the current conditions of scientific and technological progress, profiling physical education of students in higher education institutions of Ukraine becomes important. Preserving and promoting the health of the student youth, forming in it the readiness for professional activity, national – patriotic and cultural – spiritual education, the need for physical perfection and a healthy lifestyle is one of the tasks of physical education. At the same time, noting the scientific and practical interest in the problem of physical training of students, it can be noted that this trend in the system of physical education requires further study and improvement. Therefore, finding ways to improve the effectiveness of physical education with students in higher education institutions in Ukraine is one of the priority areas of scientific research in the field of physical education.