I’m a 16-year-old female and have been doing various glute and hip exercises, both at home and with my trainer. I really enjoy exercises like hip thrusts, RDLs, squats, kickbacks, clamshells, lunges, and ice skaters. However, I find that these exercises tend to engage my right glute more than my left. Even though I do plenty of activation work before my main workout, my right glute feels activated after just a few reps of clamshells or kickbacks/fire hydrants. When I try to activate my left glute, I can definitely feel the burn with clamshells at maximum effort, but with other exercises, the activation isn’t as strong. I’m struggling to make my left glute as responsive as my right, and I’d like them to be balanced for aesthetic reasons (I don’t want one glute to be significantly larger than the other and prefer to avoid surgical options in the future). Any advice would be appreciated!
Keep doing your activation exercises and experiment with different variations to better target your left glute.
Have you considered your foot placement? Check out this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8YQyZfpBgM. It provides a detailed explanation that might clarify things better than I could here.
Take a look and let me know if you need any help with the points discussed! 