In the article the basic methodological approaches in the professional development of physical training teachers in the conditions of postgraduate teacher education are identified and scientifically justified. These approaches are: competence, axiological, cultural, systemic, active. In determining of methodological approaches features of professional development of physical training teachers in terms of postgraduate education were taken into consideration. It is indicated that the using of methodological approaches in postgraduate teacher education should ensure the effectiveness of teaching physical training teachers, and to promote the comprehensive development and enrichment of every individual in the process of training and training qualification, based on the sociocultural conditioning of the educational policy, the concept of creativity as the fundamental basis of human life