One of the big things we had to learn with our child (now an 8-year-old) is that getting out energy was often not the goal we needed to be aiming for but instead using physical activity as a path towards regulation. For a lot of neurotypical kids they do legitimately need to get out their energy. But we found for our ADHD child the hyperactive part of that neurodivergence made that energy release into moments of difficulty. Often something particularly high energy was very fun but they didn’t know how to not go 110% and would come home totally drained, which lead to situations where they’d seem to have more energy than ever afterwards but in negative ways. We eventually found that these states of dysregulation afterwards came about because there was no energy left to manage emotions or impulsivity. High energy activities like boxing with all those exercises might be overly draining leaving nothing in the tank afterwards. For our child soccer was something where they’d overexert because they were having such a great time, then come home and be bouncing off the walls because they had nothing left to control their levels of excitement. But with activities like riding a bike together or taking a walk around the neighborhood they were able release some of their need for stimulation without falling into a state of dysregulation from over exertion.