You go to the gym to make sure you have the stamina to breathe in the corsets.
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.
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.
