Your school gym may be closed, but that’s no excuse to skip out on basketball workouts. In fact, you don’t even need to be on a basketball court to improve your skills.

When the gym is closed, you can train on an outdoor track, which can serve as the perfect non-basketball setting for you to work on your ball-handling and dribbling. All you need are two basketballs and two cones, and you’ll be set for a full-on skills session.

To perform the Two-Ball Scissor Drill:

• Assume an athletic stance on the starting line of the track with a basketball in each hand.
• Pound-dribble the basketballs while simultaneously pumping/chopping your feet over the line.
• Keep your head up and drive your feet as quickly as possible.

To perform the Two-Ball Lateral Hop Drill:

• Stand with your right foot parallel to the starting line with a basketball in each hand.
• Dribble the basketballs with each hand while simultaneously hopping laterally over the line.
• Keep your head up and limit the amount of ground contact time between hops.

Next up is a two-part Stationary Ball-Handling series. To perform the move:

• Assume a low, athletic stance with your feet slightly wider than your shoulders.
• Starting with a basketball in your right hand, dribble it back and forth between hands in a 1-2-3 pattern, finishing with the ball in your left hand.
• Immediately pound-dribble the basketball around and behind your left leg.
• Continue pound-dribbling the basketball between your legs and regain possession of the ball in front of your body with your left hand.
• Repeat 1-2-3 dribbling pattern, finishing with the ball in your right hand, and pound-dribble around your right leg and between your legs.

To perform the second part of the Stationary Ball-Handling series:

• Assume a low, athletic stance with your feet slightly wider than your shoulders.
• Dribble the basketball from your right hand to your left.
• From your left hand, dribble the ball between your legs and regain possession of the ball with your right hand.
• Immediately pound-dribble the basketball between your legs, regaining possession of the ball with your right hand in front of your body.
• Repeat the 1-2 dribbling pattern and perform the drill on the opposite side.

After you complete the stationary dribbling routine, set up two cones approximately 5 yards apart and perform the Two-Cone Ball-Handling Drill:

• Dribble the basketball and sprint from the first cone to the second.
• At cone 2, execute a crossover move and sprint back to cone 1.
• Execute another crossover move and sprint to cone 2.
• Dribble the ball between your legs, sprint back to cone 1 and repeat the between-the-legs dribble.
• Sprint to cone 2, dribble the ball behind your back and sprint back to cone 1.
• Execute another behind-the-back dribble.

The final track drill combines dribbling work with some core-strengthening action via the Ball-Handling Sit-Up drill.

The exercise is straightforward: perform Sit-Ups while dribbling a basketball with each hand.

One final note: If you don’t have access to an outdoor track, any flat surface will suffice. Simply place a strip of tape on the ground and get to work!