Depending on the professional duties of the National Guardsmen of different units, specific requirements for their professional readiness are established, including the necessary level of physical fitness for the effective performance of official tasks. Extraordinary circumstances caused by social, natural or man-made factors complicate activities and place high demands on the psychological stability and special physical fitness of employees. To improve the process of physical training of national guardsmen, it is important to take into account the peculiarities of their professional activity in extreme conditions. This involves the analysis of requirements for psychological, psychophysiological and physical readiness to perform official duties. The specifics of the activities of Ukrainian National Guard servicemen are associated with extreme factors, such as danger, extraordinary dynamics of events, lack of time and information, uncertainty of the situation, analysis of unstructured information, urgency of solving tasks and high responsibility for decisions. One of the components of the professional readiness of the soldiers of the National Guard of Ukraine is physical fitness, which includes readiness for high-intensity physical exertion, control over weapons and equipment, readiness for specialized movements when shooting, and endurance in resisting negative factors of service-combat activity. The conducted study outlined directions for improving the process of physical training at the National Guard of Ukraine unit. The requirements for the professional readiness of fighters of various sections of the the National Guard of Ukraine have been determined. This made it possible to develop an algorithm for the formation of the physical training process depending on the specifics of the service of specialists of various profiles.