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Ones Ready

Ep 529: Command Presence: How NOT Being Fat Might Save Your Life

Ones Ready

Aaron Love, Trent Seegmiller, and Jared "Peaches" Pietras

Education, Special Reconnaissance, Special Operations, Air Force, Pj, Combat Control, Tactical Air Control Party, Self-improvement, Fitness, Selection, Health & Fitness, Pararescue, Special Warfare, Tacp, Government, Assessment And Selection, Cct

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Send us Fan Mail Peaches sits down with Idaho SWAT officer and 600-pound deadlifter Chris Jacob to drop some uncomfortable truths about what it really means to look, act, and perform like a professional. From chasing suspects to coaching CrossFit, Chris doesn’t sugarcoat how being out of shape in uniform isn’t just lazy—it’s dangerous. They get brutally honest about law enforcement culture, the myth of “less aggressive policing,” and why your command presence might be the only thing keeping s...

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0:00.0

The way you look is how people are going to treat you and respect you.

0:04.3

There was an officer pulled over a suspect who was wanted for murder.

0:09.6

And the suspect told the officer, like, I didn't shoot you and kill you to try to get away.

0:14.1

It was because the way you looked.

0:15.4

Your command presence made me not do that because you looked tight

0:21.3

wow

0:21.8

one

0:23.6

one Go! Grind every day. Grind every day, yeah, we aim for the stars, feet on the ground, but our heads are our mars visions of glory sweat on our skin we craft our story determined to win we the titans with hearts untamed we face the giants in this battling game our dreams allowed echoes of then remain we stand as one heading for the

1:12.4

hall of fame we chase the lights to the final whistle believe it when we say we never settle

1:20.7

believe it when we say we never settle we did it we did it we did it uh hey everybody before

1:27.2

we hop into this next episode with ch Jacob, who is a 12-year,

1:31.5

almost 13-year law enforcement officer, he's SWAT. He has got history in being a school resource

1:39.8

officer, and he's a CrossFit athlete and all that kind kind of stuff we go into his story but before we go

1:45.6

to that if you guys don't mind and i'm going to take you there right now too is head over to

1:51.3

operator training summit you guys thought i was going to say onesready.com didn't you if you head over to

1:56.0

operator training summit you guys can see this is our new site between One's Ready, Guardian Grid, and Taylor

2:03.7

Starch, and you can go through and see some of the events that we do. We have, let me show it. Look at that.

2:13.0

Can you guys see that? How, if the picture of Chris Thomas doesn't get you going, nothing will.

2:20.9

Like that dude is stoic as hell.

2:22.8

And that stash.

2:23.5

And you got Aaron, you got Trent, and you got Taylor Starch.

2:27.3

And then yeah, yeah, whatever.

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