SUMMARY
The article considers the problem of estimating the professional competence of future fitness-trainers in higher educational institutions. There was determined the ambiguity of scientific views on the structure of the professional competence of a graduate, considered in the aspect of functional components of activity, management functions, psychic functions and psychological content of activity. There was elaborated the structure of professional competence of future fitness-trainers that includes: motivational, axiological, gnoseological, praxeological and personal components. There were separated the criteria of estimating of professional competence formation of future fitness-trainers: motivational-volitional, value-sense, cognitive-intellectual, operational-technological and socio-psychological ones. The correspondent indicators included: manifestations of volitional self-regulation and professional directionality of a person; striving for self-actualization; volume of knowledge from the cycle of professional subjects and research abilities; degree of didactic-motor, projecting-designing, control-analytic, organizational-regulative, motivational-communicative and marketing-commercial subcompetences; formation of empathy, communicative, organizational, leader abilities and conflict-resistance of a person. There were characterized the high, middle and low levels of the professional competence formation of future fitness-trainers in higher educational institutions.