"impede performance" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe when something is making progress slow or difficult. For example, "The harsh winter conditions were starting to impede performance on the construction job."
Some divers believe they impede performance, others may be complacent; hopefully this will now change.
Then, of course, the athlete has to avoid injury, even a minor twinge, that could impede performance in any of the three sports.
Other protective measures that should not impede performance include the use of softer baseballs (those that meet standards set by the National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment), polyethylene or plastic and foam chest protectors for batters, rubber spikes, the use of breakaway bases and avoidance of head-first sliding by children under 10.
The camera and transmitter are safely woven into the player's uniform and are designed not to impede performance.
Limited cognitive proximity can lead to misunderstandings and impede performance, whereas too close cognitive proximity may reduce inter-firm knowledge exchange and learning opportunities (Belso-Martinez, 2016; Molina-Morales et al., 2015).
These beliefs refer to particular factors that could facilitate or impede performance of the behaviour [ 29].
Ingesting large volumes of fluid may cause gastrointestinal (GI) discomfort, impeding performance.
Embeddedness of economic action in social relations improves access to resources, but over-embeddedness impedes performance.
Past research has shown that protective clothing impedes performance on manual dexterity tasks.
One month after the start of syphilis screening, 10 clinical staff and 2 laboratory technicians were interviewed to identify factors that facilitated or impeded performance of the test.
For our students it was their first experience of high-fidelity emergency medicine simulation, under observation by faculty, which may have increased or impeded performance.
