What if you didn't have education for sports? People with a natural inclination for sports, athletes without any kind of education, without any kind of training, they would just be couch athletes instead of the world class Olympians that we have.
The vocal cords are a muscle, and like any other muscle in the body, they can be strained. So you have to warm up.
I would have to say that my very first encounter with the arts was when my mother bought me my first record player when I was six years old as well as a Karen Carpenter record.
You go to the gym to make sure you have the stamina to breathe in the corsets.