The specifics of the selection and work with students in a particular sport imposes certain requirements on the personality of a young specialist and the necessary set of knowledge and skills that a student must acquire in the learning process. A future physical education teacher should be able to correctly plan the types of exercises in teaching a student, depending on the physical and anatomical features of his body.

The article deals with the structure and content of the skills of physical education students in the professional use of physiological and anatomical knowledge. It is characterized by: cognitive, constructive, communicative, organizational and control and corrective components.