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There's a school of thought emerging that believes that cardio does two things:
1) It burns fat and muscle.
2) It teaches your body to store fat in preparation for future cardio, and teaches your body how to use LESS fat. The latter 'learning effect' can be curbed by mixing up your routine, but the former is, this school of thought states, unavoidable. If you do cardio, you're teaching your body to keep fat.
For you, I'd go so far as to say minimal cardio -- probably what you're doing for no more than two days a week. You'd probably benefit from adding HIIT a few times a week (on your lifting offdays) as it activates the same bodily response as weight lifting -- a surge of growth hormones. It has the added benefit of not training your body to store and efficiently use fat, and it burns a significantly higher proportion of fat per calorie burned than normal cardio.
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