What can be done to reduce the risk of delayed onset muscle soreness?

Reducing the risk of delayed onset muscle soreness ... really the only thing that you can do is not work out, and I don't advise that. Everybody is going to get sore at some point when they pick up a new routine, pick up a new activity. It's just how significant the muscle soreness is. There are definitely times when the soreness and the pain can actually be quite detrimental in the activity. As long as you can still do your normal activities after you work out, then it's okay. We actually don't discourage that.