Currently, assessing the general state of the science of physical culture and sports, they often say about the need for its modernization. This is justified for the very reason that it has long existed and in recent years a serious discrepancy has emerged in the interpretation of such concepts as "motor action" and "physical culture", which are basic in the sciences of physical culture and sport, and the treatment of these concepts in sciences of a broader plan, especially in philosophical anthropology, which invariably manifests a heightened interest in these phenomena. The idea of motor action and physical culture, based on an adequate methodology, exacerbates a person's general sense of movement and sense of his own body, and in the scientific and cognitive plan - helps to form a reliable conceptual basis for theoretical analysis and to develop an arsenal of methodological tools that enable effectively solve the problem of motor and physical training of a person. The foregoing does not mean that in carrying out the modernization of the science of physical culture and sports, one should follow the way of complete replacement of the positivist methodology by the philosophical methodology. First of all, it is about strengthening the metaphysical component within the framework of the general methodological approach.