The author in the article analyzes the professional training of future physical culture specialists who need to learn pedagogical, health-forming, health-preserving technologies in order to support educational process scientifically and sustainably. In the conditions of the modern anthropocentric paradigm of education, students of higher education should make the educational process health preserving, and they should master their professional health-preserving competence, which is manifested in the awareness of the importance of health. Moreover, it is essential to maintain the constant promotion of the keeping and strengthening the students. Furthermore, it is important to use health health-saving technologies in the educational system while developing the skills of a physical culture specialist, their ability to organize and regulate health-saving activities in the educational institution.In this study, criteria for evaluating the health-preserving competence of a physical culture specialist were developed. We determined the definition of health-preserving competence, which is considered as an integral, dynamic feature of the personality, which has a complex systemic organization and is characterized by the ability to organize one's health-preserving activities in such a way as to counteract influences, views and beliefs that contradict internal attitudes, to be able to adequately assess one's own behavior and the behavior of students, implement one's own health-preserving positions, based on personally perceived moral norms and principles.In the article, we defined and analyzed the interrelated components of health-preserving competence: motivational, cognitive, activity, informational, technological and reflexive, which will ensure the readiness of the future physical culture specialist to preserve and strengthen the health of students, and most importantly, determine the optimal techniques, forms and methods of health care activities.The experience of observing the educational activities of students of the Poltava National Pedagogical University named after V. G. Korolenko shows that the best methods of obtaining pedagogical knowledge for these components are: a) the results of solving specially set valeological tasks; b) the ability to analyze and self-assess the process and results of activity; c) lack of tension when performing tasks typical for a future physical culture teacher: manner, style, which are associated with the need for increased concentration, tension, expenditure of energy and time.We recommend using different approaches to health care: didactic, event-based, problem-based, and individual, which will help create a health-care environment in educational institutions; will form healthy lifestyle skills; will improve physical culture and health work; will carry out monitoring and dynamic monitoring of children's health, etc. We have determined indicators of the health-preserving competence of the future specialist, which represent the process of becoming a health-preserving personality, the formation of professional competencies, which are a prerequisite for successful future professional activity in modern conditions. Its substantive basis should be person-oriented training and a competency-based educational paradigm for the development of future professionals.This process requires the modernization of the Ukrainian professional and pedagogical training of future teachers of physical culture to the European system of training these specialists.