With the continuous development of society, people's understanding of physical education is also deepening. In recent years, the idea of lifelong physical education has aroused the extensive attention of physical educators in higher vocational colleges. It has become an important direction of the reform of physical education in colleges. From the perspective of lifelong physical education, this paper examines the problems existing in the current physical education in higher vocational colleges and puts forward the corresponding solutions to provide some references for the relevant researchers.