'impede capacity' is Correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are talking about something that restricts or limits potential or capacity. For example, "The lack of resources available to the project has begun to impede capacity."
Subsequent findings about "cognitive bandwidth" and the limitations of willpower have largely substantiated James's hunch: if you waste resources trying to decide when or where to work, you'll impede your capacity to do the work.
Inappropriate land use and agriculture management practices continuously impede the capacity of agricultural landscapes to provide ecosystem services (ES).
Similarly, social and historical conditions (such as oppressive gender socialization) may promote or impede the capacity for autonomy (e.g., Meyers 1989).
It can happen at every stage of a woman's life, from steering her away from science and technology education to shouldering her with home responsibilities that impede her capacity to work the long hours of demanding professions".
It is misguided because road trauma has impeded and does still impede the capacity of economies to develop.
However, our case studies do illustrate that philosophies concerning the organization and structure of public administration can enable or impede adaptive capacity.
Experiencing psychiatric stigma was reported to worsen the health of service users and impede their capacity to lead and recover a normal life.
The latter is important, as acute stroke is often experienced by patients/relatives as a traumatic event, which can impede their capacity to understand verbal information conveyed by clinicians [ 3].
Condition 2 thus presented you with a new constraint that initially impeded your capacity to fulfill the task.
